Two new books reveal how a 1980s shooting reflected rising right-wing attitudes in a rapidly gentrifying New York.

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The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them.

Israel, whose desires to act as a saboteur and trap the United States into the war it desperately wanted us to conduct couldn’t be more obvious, spent Wednesday pounding central Beirut with airstrikes ...

After mining out state budgets for 50 years, conservative lawmakers across the country are now turning their pickaxes to local governments’ largest source of revenue: property taxes.

Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal.

Donald Trump is setting records. His war on Iran is certainly the stupidest war in American history—and that’s saying something—and Trump has now lost it more quickly than any previous war. It took 20 ...

It turns out he’s still alive, and still teaching at Fordham Law. We had some questions about an amendment that wasn’t written to meet a moment like this.

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The latest No Kings marches attracted a record eight million people. Most of them were of an advanced age that suggested they personally remembered the 1960s.