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Everyone who realizes with proper alarm that Trump’s reëlection is a deeply dangerous moment in American life must think hard ...

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Both Trump’s and Harris’s campaigns framed the Presidential election as a contest between men and women. Did the results ...

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Above my desk, I keep a Post-it note with a quote from the play: “The worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’ ...

As American civic life has become increasingly shaped by algorithms, trust in government has plummeted. Is there any turning ...

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Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until ...

Imagine a baseball stadium. Fill it with twenty thousand Americans. Require Democrats to wear blue and Republicans red. At a ...