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It was a beautiful North Carolina spring day in 2000 at the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, and Governor Jim Hunt was ...

When the New York Times columnist told the Daily Show host about out-of-control regulations ruining a Biden administration rural broadband program, the clip went viral, with Elon Musk’s help. But the ...

Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, is about to become the latest example of what you might call the Trump Boomerang Effect.

Trump’s second term has turned radical individualism into doctrine—eroding America’s collective institutions, from health ...

Government is slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. A former senior Biden official offers a progressive blueprint to fix it.

Donald Trump and the Republicans cut graduate student loans for nurses and social workers to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

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It was a beautiful North Carolina spring day in 2000 at the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, and Governor Jim Hunt was sprinting down the giant ruby-red stairs. I was his then-young press aide, and we ...

If Trump had his way, independent media would no longer exist. He has used personal intimidation of professional journalists, ...

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

Since October 7, 2023, many pro-Palestinian activists have insisted that anti-Zionism is a principled stand for an ...