The Death of Competition in American Elections
A vast majority of 2024 races for Congress and state legislatures were decided by low-turnout or meaningless primaries. The ...
In Trump’s Alternate Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change
Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for ...
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Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times They are building on the party’s base, which has traditionally been older, working-class men. Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times These young people ...
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The Trump administration wants revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources, according to a draft obtained by The New York Times, with no security guarantee in exchange. The German chancellor ...
John Roberts Has One Chance to Get This Right
Alexander Hamilton saw it coming. In the Federalist Papers, he described the judiciary as a feeble branch of government, ...
America Loses Its Soul When It Rejects People Fleeing Danger
For me, to be civilized boils down to being willing to work against our own lesser interests in order to alleviate greater ...
I Teach at Harvard. Store Managers See Me as a Threat.
Mr. Betts is a poet, a lawyer and the founder and chief executive of Freedom Reads. His latest book of poems, “Doggerel,” is ...