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Iran’s internet blackout is yet another act of state violence.

The president’s political power depends on his ability to play different roles for different parts of his coalition.

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“F olks, that’s bush-league policing,” Sheriff Kevin Joyce of Cumberland County, Maine, told reporters on Thursday after one ...

Before the poster, every weekday afternoon, clots of teens would move through the arteries of the store, occasionally blocking them. The kids would laugh among themselves, swatch makeup on their arms, ...

The rise of social media has disrupted both the media system and political parties. Financial markets gyrate, industries rise and fall at blistering rates, and new life-changing technologies appear ...

It was the Chinese auto giant BYD. The secret to BYD’s success is simple: The company makes high-tech electric and hybrid ...

"Before the fact is the dream," a small-town South Dakota druggist used to remind his two sons and two daughters. One of the sons went on to become mayor of Minneapolis, senator from Minnesota, and ...

Reuben Rose-Redwood is an Associate Professor of Geography and Chair of the Committee for Urban Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. His research examines the historical ...

Elaine Godfrey is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She covers national politics. It’s making some Democrats anxious. They’re blaming their leader, House Speaker Mike Johnson. What does it mean to be ...