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Jared Kushner’s Mysterious Role in the Trump Administration

Is the president’s son-in-law carrying out the public’s business or pursuing his own private interests?

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Micah Lasher, Child Magician

The race for New York’s Twelfth District keeps getting more interesting.

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The Era of Normie Extremism Is Here

What the alleged Washington hotel attacker has in common with Luigi Mangione

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Why Democrats Got the Politics of Immigration So Wrong for So Long

They spent more than a decade tacking left on the issue to win Latino votes. It may have cost them the White House—twice.

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The New Anarchy

America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.

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Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever

Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas

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John Roberts’s Dream Is Finally Coming True

The chief justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career.

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This ABC Showdown Is Different

The network is now in a stronger position to defend itself against the FCC.

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‘I Run the Country and the World’

Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

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Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now

Just say it’s because they’re Democrats.

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The ‘Fight Club’ Rule on Gerrymandering

Florida’s state constitution prohibits redrawing maps for political advantage.

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Donald Trump’s Disturbing Welcome for King Charles

At the White House, the president embraced the idea that the nation is an Anglo-Saxon one.

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Photos: A Century of Sidecar Racing

Images from the past century of motorcycle racers and their sidecar passengers performing acrobatic maneuvers to stay balanced on the track, and their ever-evolving rigs

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America’s Blood Populists

Most Americans fully reject political violence. It’s time to differentiate between those who tolerate it and everyone else.

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Miranda Priestly Hangs Up Her Own Coat Now

The Devil Wears Prada 2 finds the magazine industry in a much less glamorous place.

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Who Is the Real Base of the Democratic Party?

Jamal Simmons on lessons from the 2024 election, how Democrats can win in 2028, and who the real base of the Democratic Party is. Plus: Why the White House Correspondents’ Dinner feels so out of touch...

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The King’s Admirer in Chief

Trump’s fondness for Charles at times appeared to tip over into envy.

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Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.

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The Pope Goes on an ICE Ride-Along

The Holy Father accepts Tom Homan’s gracious invitation.

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The Evidence That God Exists

Searching for scientific proof for faith misunderstands faith.

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Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures

To a surprising degree, our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion.

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The YOLO Presidency

Trump is focused on becoming one of history’s “great men.”

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America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This

Trump’s Qatari jet was just the beginning.

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Sam Altman and Elon Musk Sure Dislike Each Other

The trial between the CEOs makes the AI boom seem sordid and small.

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The Richest Grudge Match in History

The trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman makes the AI boom seem sordid and small.

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The Evolution of Trump’s Corruption

The president is no longer intimidated by backlash.

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The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t

The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?

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The Ballroom Truthers Have a Theory

A conspiracy theory keeps growing.

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All Hands on Deck

A new coalition for 2022.

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This Is Why We Need a Ballroom

Many historical disasters would have been prevented if we had one of these in the White House.

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A Land of Artists

Lee Friedlander’s view of America

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Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence

Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else.

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The Avant-Garde Path to God

A new book explores how contemporary art can offer glimpses of the divine.

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The Trump-Trumpist Divide

The incoming president wants to do things his voters have not embraced.

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It Might Be Time to Retire 'Jeopardy'

The end of a cultural icon?

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Americans Once Understood Birthright Citizenship

Newspaper columnists instructed generations of citizens about the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the country seems to have forgotten how clear the law is.

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A Mediocre Public-School Education for Just $40,000 a Pupil

How New York City’s education budget became an untouchable money pit

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The Lost Idealism of Heartland Rock

The genre of Bob Seger and John Mellencamp reached across the ideological spectrum in a way that seems unimaginable today.

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OpenAI Is Jealous

Sam Altman is pivoting his company to be more like Anthropic.

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Is It the Shoes?

The marathon’s impossible barrier was broken.

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Is Schoolwork Optional Now?

Education is on the verge of becoming fully automated.

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So Nobody Is Going to Pay Taxes Now?

America actually needs a tax base.

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How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years

Ask yourself: Are you coal, or are you a horse?

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The Film That Explains Contemporary America

“The Sorrow and the Pity” has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.

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The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here

Do your parents have a screen-time problem?

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MAHA’s Perfect Villain

Glyphosate highlights the movement’s horseshoe politics and has nothing to do with vaccines.

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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center

I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

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The Shooting Is Not a Reason to Speedrun Trump’s Ballroom

The safe outcome on Saturday makes the case for deliberation and care.

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Can We Make Events Like the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Safer?

Yes, but some level of risk is inevitable in a free society.

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