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It was not a philosophical exercise or an abstract appeal. It was the plea of a U.S.-born citizen confronted with a ...

The Trump administration and the far right are engaging in dangerous, un-American tactics to suppress speech they dislike, ...

Henry Laufer is a mathematician who was chief scientist at Renaissance Technologies. Along with his wife, Marsha, a former local Democratic party chair, he has given to support Democrats and liberal ...

When the NFL in September 2025 announced that Bad Bunny would headline the next Super Bowl halftime show, it took only hours for the political outrage machine to roar to life. The Puerto Rican ...

When the NFL in September 2025 announced that Bad Bunny would headline the next Super Bowl halftime show, it took only hours for the political outrage machine to roar to life. The Puerto Rican ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to demolish the East Wing of the White House to make way for a ballroom is classic Trumpian theater — grandiose destruction packaged as vision. But the stories of the ...

At a press conference on October 21, House Speaker Mike Johnson — appearing in his usual mien: bespectacled, boyishly coiffed, and vaguely offended, like a ninth-grader confronted with a pop quiz on ...

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American political culture is broken. Acts of political violence, like the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, are disturbing indicators of how fractured and ...