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Donald Trump’s most amusing habit is meting out casual abuse to his sycophants. His recent answer to a question about the ...

In early April, shortly after Markwayne Mullin took over the Department of Homeland Security, he floated an idea on Fox News ...

For American artists and architects, the structures embody the virtues and vulnerabilities of the republic. The president’s ...

He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat.

Kennedy Jr. to quiet his anti-vaccine rhetoric—publicly, at least. But protections against infectious disease are continuing ...

A magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep ...

In 2020, Anthony Fauci, then the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, encouraged Americans to discard the unhygienic practice for the sake of our collective health ...

Asking Black athletes to sacrifice for the greater good could reshape college sports and national politics alike. But it ...

The synagogue’s rabbi, board, and other decision makers are pondering a new and difficult dilemma: how to fortify their house ...

James Joyce, whose Ulysses contained more than 200 spelling or grammatical errors in an early edition, called his typos ...

Although the fact is often forgotten, the American colonists were not the only people who faced a political crisis in the ...