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In 1997, the historian Iris Chang published her important, incendiary book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. It...

One of the long-running jokes of theTrump era was the notion that its bizarre twists and turns unfolded as thoughthey’d been scripted by a...

Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of its testing of masks for preventing the spread of Cov...

Last week, during a series of votes on amendments to the Senate’s budget resolution, eight Democrats signed onto an amendment aimed at prohi...

The grinding quality of American presidential memoirs owes to the cross-purposes they serve: to deliver a point-by-point defense of the admi...

On January 6, terrorists—encouraged by former President Donald Trump and enabled by his Republican supporters in Congress—attacked the Unite...

The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump ended with a whimper Saturday afternoon, leaving time for the long weekend in honor of, yes, pr...

In a much-anticipated move, the Biden administration on Friday announced it would start allowing some asylum seekers, forced to stay in Mexi...

As perhaps the second-most conservative member of a Democratic Senate caucus that can’t afford to lose a single vote to pass its agenda, Ari...

Five people died when Trump supporters besieged the Capitol last month, including Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. Two other Capitol P...

In the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the Lincoln Project, the viral ad-making Never Trump group, was riding high. Over...

Earlier this month, Alondra Carmona, a high school student in Houston, learned that her mother had been laid off from her job at the Port of...

If you’ve sent or received any mail over the last few months, you may have noticed that the United States Postal Service is not in great sha...

Back in the early 1990s, Baptist pastor Gary Chapman released a book about human relationships. Inits first year, the book barely made a sp...

Little has changed in the year or so spanning the two impeachments of Donald Trump. His second trial, which began Tuesday, will likely be sw...

Britney Spears can’t spend her own money without permission or decide where she lives. She doesn’t have the right to choose who she spends t...

Watching the House managers present their case in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial reminded me less of an actual criminal trial and m...

Niccolò Machiavelli is viewed in the popular imagination as a sinister figure who dispensed cynical advice to ambitious politicians on how t...

Residentsand businesses along the Gulf Coast may be missing the Mardi Gras festivitiescanceled due to the pandemic this year. The planet p...

We all know the story. Boy meets girl. Boy tells girl about his life. Girl goes home and cyberstalks boy. Girl discovers boy lied about his...

No piece of Covid-era filmmaking has been praised quite as much as the 13-minute montage that opened the second impeachment trial of Donald...

The Saturday afternoon following Election Day 2020 felt like a holiday Democratic voters feared would never happen. In cities across the cou...

The choice ahead for the 50 Senate Republicans is stark. In the words of that old labor song, “Which side are you on?”In their masterful and...

When Trump was impeached for the first time, I wrote article after article about the various defenses that his allies had employed and why t...

Donald Trump, the twice-impeached former president, is permanently banned from Twitter. If you didn’t see this coming—if you expected Trump...