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Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now?
[ad_1] At seven-fifteen in the morning on Monday, July 13th, when Democrats in Maine were in the midst of a hastily created process to…
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Life in Pictures
[ad_1] Andrew has always maintained that he has no memory of ever meeting Giuffre, and that he committed no wrongdoing in any of his…
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Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering?
[ad_1] In May, between the two payments, Trump, overruling objections from his national-security advisers about Emirati ties to China, approved a huge sale of…
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Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis
[ad_1] On January 8th, the twelfth day of mass protests in Iran, which began when shopkeepers, responding to runaway inflation, closed Tehran’s Grand Bazaar,…
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Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist
[ad_1] There aren’t many moments in Donald Trump’s political career that could be called highlights. But one occurred during the 2016 Republican primary debate…
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What Will New York’s New Map Show Us?
[ad_1] On the new map, you can readily see where each train stops, but with less of a sense of where you are on…
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What Zohran Mamdani Is Up Against
[ad_1] According to the New York City Department of Records and Information Services, Zohran Mamdani will not actually be the city’s hundred-and-eleventh mayor, as…
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The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein Files
[ad_1] On a Friday evening in October, 2021, the Justice Department launched into damage-control mode. The Attorney General, Merrick Garland, the Deputy Attorney General,…
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The Meaning of Trump’s Presidential Pardons
[ad_1] “No maga left behind,” Martin tweeted. He seems to mean it: Trump granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first…
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Voting Rights and Immigration Under Attack
[ad_1] Sixty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed two pieces of legislation that are, to a remarkable degree, animating forces in the most…
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Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
[ad_1] The surprise and shock that so many people have registered at the photographs of Donald Trump’s destruction of the East Wing of the…
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A “New Middle East” Is Easier to Declare Than to Achieve
[ad_1] President Donald Trump arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday morning, October 13th, just as Hamas was releasing the last surviving Israeli hostages…
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The Real Problem Is How Trump Can Legally Use the Military
[ad_1] The militarization of American cities, including Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago, has brought home a perverse irony. Throughout the history of the United…
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Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the “War from Within”
[ad_1] For someone openly campaigning to get a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump has been going about it in an unusual way. Early last…
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Grace and Disgrace
[ad_1] On a humid Charleston evening ten years ago, a ninth-grade dropout with a bowl haircut named Dylann Roof walked into a Bible-study class…
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Seeing Enemies Everywhere
[ad_1] Following the tragic death of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the line between eulogy and blame wore swiftly and predictably thin. By Monday…
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R.F.K., Jr., Brings More Chaos to COVID Policy and the C.D.C.
[ad_1] Last month, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, demanded that Susan Monarez, the newly confirmed director of the…
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The Trump Administration’s Efforts to Reshape America’s Past
[ad_1] In 1976, the year the United States celebrated its bicentennial, Donald J. Trump, thirty, leonine, and three-piece-suited, was chauffeured around Manhattan by an armed…
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Trump Sends in the National Guard
[ad_1] Tourists who came to Washington, D.C., last week—tromping from one Smithsonian collection to another, eating ice cream on the steps of the Lincoln…