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What really matters in the world of politics, campaigns, ideology, and more.

Don’t let polarization distract you from one of the most important issues the world faces.

Don’t let polarization distract you from one of the most important issues the world faces.


It’s more complicated than it should be.


The president casts himself as Israel’s greatest defender, while cutting deals with its greatest enemies.


Trump’s new resettlement program ignores the history of apartheid.
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A glimpse into the bitter infighting consuming MAGA’s intellectual ranks.


Much of the hearing focused on whether Richard Nixon can save Trump’s tariffs.


Presidents can’t keep gifts that are worth more than $480 unless they buy them. This plane costs about $400 million.


Is our long-ish national economic nightmare over?


Trump is squandering one of his biggest 2024 electoral accomplishments.


Trump’s team had grand ambitions for reordering global trade. They’re backing down.


The president is keeping his hands off Social Security and Medicare — at least for now.


The strange connection between ideology and the brain.


America’s most powerful legal organization confronts Trump’s incompetence.


Israel has a horrifying new plan for “the concluding moves” of the Gaza war. Yet it’s flying under the American radar.


His views on immigration may point to an early clash with the Trump administration.


Marco Rubio’s four jobs, explained the best we can.


Her detention “chills the speech of the millions and millions of people who are not citizens,” a federal judge said.


Two bitter enemies, more than 300 nukes, and no end in sight.


A former presidential candidate’s dubious plan for winning back Republican zoomers.


Paying for school could become a lot more difficult — on multiple levels.


The justices will soon decide whether to weaken the courts holding back Trump.


Who is the new pope? What will the new pope do? And other questions, answered.


Trump is threatening the independence of the Fed. That’s dangerous.


Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — is not your typical boomer Chicago Catholic.


It’s more of a trade framework.


American politics has poisoned how we think about the pope.


How Oklahoma’s universal pre-K program became a model for its progressive peers.


To MAGA hardliners’ chagrin, Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent are on the rise. How long can this last?


Can Trump actually deport immigrants to Libya?


Whoops! Republicans have somehow managed to violate Bush v. Gore.


White House policy is being hatched in elite conservative bubbles.


We’re about to get our first window into whether the judiciary will allow Trump’s trade war to continue.


Both Trump and the Houthis are claiming victory after striking a ceasefire deal.


Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his ban on trans military service, after a lower court blocked it.


To defend democracy, the courts must rule in favor of a lawmaker who bullied a high school student.


Trump’s latest executive order presents a test for Democrats.

Don’t blame Joe Rogan too much — one theory says that the roots of this gender gap go back decades.


5 million Americans are facing having their loans sent to collections.


Auto workers supported tariffs to protect their jobs. They caused layoffs instead.


The most surprising consequence of Trump’s trade war.


Two cast members of the hit Netflix reality TV show on what the HHS secretary misunderstands about autism.


Political scientist Frances Lee examines the “noble lies” and truth-seeking failures of the pandemic.


Yes, it’s radical. But no, it’s not on the cusp of becoming law.


The end of the de minimis exemption, briefly explained.
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