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William di Canzio’s Alec arrived in the mail looking like an English novel set in Italy, circa 1960: a black-and-white illustration of a han...

It may be hard to remember but six months ago, Democrats had a kind of super momentum. The euphoria of the early days of a new president, pl...

As of Monday, Biden administrationofficials were in active discussions with their French counterparts to connectthe president with French...

Emotions ran tepid as American discourse prevailed at the J6 rally in DC yesterday, for better or for worse. The expectation of violence, or...

Against all odds and after weeks of work, they finally got it done—a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill. “This bill is not perfect, but...

Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, says Joe Biden’s $3.5 tr...

In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, new fears have been raised that a Taliban-ruled Af...

For those looking to insurgent electoral movements to freshen our political possibilities, this week’s preliminary mayoral results in Boston...

High-flying journalist and author Bob Woodward once again has the Beltway buzzing over a Donald Trump book. Peril, co-authored by Washington...

Representative Anthony Gonzalez, one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after the January 6 ins...

Nearly a year ago, the results from the Covid-19 vaccine trials were like a dream come true for health experts: The trials were huge and des...

Ken Burns, the celebrated documentarian whose films have chronicled America’s story from jazz to baseball to war, is out with his and his te...

This story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project.It was February 2016, and the p...

There is no shortage of areas where American democracy is in desperate need of reform. Most debates on this subject surround the parts of go...

“A great deal of hokey art has been made in the service of excellent causes.” Thus begins Robert Hughes’s pan of the feminist artist Judy Ch...

The scope and ambition of any Democratic voting rights bill are, at this point, academic: As long as the filibuster is in place, almost any...

The novelist Richard Powers has made a name for himself as a gloriously geeky writer, unafraid of big ideas. Over 12 novels, he has tackled...

The foolishness of California’s recall system—which failed this week to replace California Governor Gavin Newsom with a right-wing talk radi...

On Monday evening, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gladhanded with some of the city’s wealthiest at the Met Gala, ignoring the activists...

The climate crisis is also a mental health crisis. Psychologistshave known this for some time. But this week, preliminary findings from a m...

There was a point during thecampaign to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom when the governor’s advisers frettedabout an enthusiasm ga...

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In February 2009, when he took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Tucker Carlson was in the midst of an identity cri...

Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist who may run for governor of his home state of Oregon next year, was born in 1959 and raised o...