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Tyrone Clifford Jr. remembers the first time he tried methamphetamine. “It was everything, all at once,” he said; a whirring rush of euphori...

Two years ago, Margaret Spellings, GeorgeW. Bush’s secretary of education, and Arne Duncan, Barack Obama’s secretary of education, wrote an...

This year, all around the country, Republican state lawmakers are pushing an alarming array of bills that are designed to make it harder to...

Arizona, California, and Nevada will need to cut their use of Colorado River water by nearly 40 percent by 2050. A study by researchers at U...

Speaking to The Nation in 2014, Ehab Al Shihabi, then the CEO of the recently launched Al Jazeera America, made the case that Americans were...

Last week, Democrats introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021—a comprehensive immigration bill that will evidently be one of the Biden ad...

Every year, my colleagues and I get to go through “libel training.” Every year, I also make the insufferable joke to my co-workers that we’r...

In early December, conservative commentators tried to drum up social media controversy over a sweatshirt. The shirt, merchandise for Alexand...

Halfway through a recent New York Times story about Governor Andrew Cuomo’s long (but perhaps not widely known) history of governance-by-bul...

Law enforcement ably played the role of both problem and solution at Tuesday’s Senate oversight hearing on the January 6 riot at the Capitol...

Last week, Facebook went nuclear. As Australia considered legislation to force tech giants to compensate media outlets, the social-media co...

OnDecember 13, 2019, Britain’s newly elected Prime Minister Boris Johnsonwelcomed “a new dawn.” The Conservative Party had secured its lar...

Consider a steak. When it hits the hot oil in the pan, your mouth can’t help but water at the aroma. That familiar crackle of fat beginning...

On May 31, 1953, 20-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City. She was a rising senior at Smith College and already a published author,...

Jonathan Karl, the guest host of ABC’s This Week, knew exactly what he was doing on Sunday when he asked Republican Representative Steve Sca...

Blending fiction and philosophy is more akin to chemistry than art: It involves creating a synthetic element that rarely occurs in nature in...

In the wake of the winter storm that decimated Texas’ energy infrastructure and left millions without power or water, the predictable storyl...

If Merrick Garland is confirmed by the Senate and becomes the next attorney general, his first priority, according to the testimony he offer...

CartoonistAl Capp, famous for the twentieth-centurycomic strip Li’l Abner, created avisually memorable character named Joe Btfsplk who wa...

In July 2017, Donald Trump gave a speech in Warsaw that seemed, at the time, to herald a new age. In remarks dredged from the imagination of...

Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is over, and Washington is now congealing around some sort of august body to investigate the January...

Deb Haaland could be the next secretary of the Interior. Her hearing is scheduled for Tuesday and, if seated, the congresswoman from New Mex...

Although Donald Trump’s status as a bestower of brilliant nicknames was always overrated, the GOP is clearly lost without his marketing savv...

A real estate agent might call our apartment in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston cozy with a sun-drenched bedroom. The reality is that i...

“The electricity would come on and then turn off immediately. Every 30 minutes or hour you would get this moment of hope,” said Paris Moran,...