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Even Hollywood’s Funniest People Have to Compromise

One of comedy’s best leading men returns to cinemas with … an action thriller?

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Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

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What We Learn About Trump in His Rare Moments of Self-Reflection

For a brief moment this weekend, the president appeared introspective.

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks

Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

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Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026

A collection of some of this year’s winning and honored photographs. Nearly 9,000 entries were submitted to organizers by member photographers from 15 countries.

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The Epstein Spectrum

A moral exercise in a moral desert

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The Pentagon May Not Be Telling Trump the Full Picture About the War

Vice President Vance is worried that the U.S. is running low on weapons.

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The American Pope vs. the American President

The pontiff has proved unwilling to subordinate his faith to politics, or to adjust his commitment to the Gospel in exchange for access to power.

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What Happens if Trump Seizes AI Companies

The administration could exert much greater control over the industry—but just how far would it go?

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The Books That Take Revenge, Centuries Later

A new history of the Red Scare prompts the question: Does literature still have enough influence to bring down the powerful?

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The Correspondents’ Dinner Was a Security Success*

*But it’s time to rethink security at an event that is clearly so vulnerable.

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The Age of American Caesarism

The legal right spent decades empowering the presidency. Now it must reckon with the system it helped create.

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Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable

If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

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The Banality of MAGA-fication

A new book by an unremarkable Republican accidentally illuminates the devolution of the party.

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Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out

After a lifetime of good fortune, the generation has become vulnerable at exactly the wrong moment.

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Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work

If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling.

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A Lesson for Guarding the Presidential Line of Succession

This weekend’s failed attack highlighted a risk that often goes unspoken.

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Someday in Tehran

The heartbreak of hoping for a democratic Iran

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The Most Frightening Shooters Are the Smart Ones

A manifesto-like email allegedly sent by the dinner shooter suggests a murderous obsession with Trump’s politics.

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We Cannot Harden the World Against Every Attacker

Tragedy was averted at a Washington hotel, but such moments will happen again.

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It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart

The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.

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MAGA’s Strange Quiet After the Shooting

Instead of a crackdown on his enemies, Trump wants his ballroom.

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A Dark New Litmus Test for Power in Washington

The shooting at the correspondents’ dinner made clear who gets saved first.

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Hitler’s Edifice Complex

He was obsessed with adding an expensive new wing to the Reich chancellery, part of his grandiose architectural ambitions for the nation’s capital.

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If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now

Electronics are getting more expensive and worse. Blame the AI boom.

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An Incredibly Weird Time to Be Alive

The world witnessed the best and worst of humanity in a single week.

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The Men Behind the Nunes Memo

The House Intelligence Committee’s chair wasn’t alone in drafting the classified memo that it just voted to release.

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Thou Shalt Not Post the Ten Commandments in Classrooms

Requiring schools to endorse biblical laws is both unconstitutional and counterproductive.

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How Netanyahu Hurt America’s Jews

The Israeli prime minister’s focus is, as always, on himself and his near-term political needs. The plight of American Jews is simply not his concern.

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Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump

Zelensky has written off the United States.

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The Show-Trial Rhetoric That Took Down a Charter-School Founder

A petition accusing Steven Wilson of “white supremacist” language makes no sense, and barely tries to.

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The FBI Director Is MIA

Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

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A Shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

A dispatch from the chaotic scene at the Washington Hilton

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