Why People Want to Believe the Lindsay Clancy Conspiracy Theories
Mistrust about the case stems from understandable anger and sorrow at the ways women in extremis aren’t believed.
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A Political Awakening in Arab America
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After Six Months of War, Trump Is Still Losing to Iran
The conflict marks a “precipitous collapse of American power and American prestige.”
The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal
In a young Black professor’s academic misconduct, a “race-realist” found a “hook for a story.”
Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America
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How I Became a Subaru Socialist
By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.
The Big, Dumb, Gluttonous Fun of America’s Semiquincentennial
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How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?
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The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands
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The End of the European Summer
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A Trump Grift Too Far?
A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit.
Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote
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The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense
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How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense
After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.
Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers
The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.
Israel’s Leaders Find Allies Among the Global Far Right
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Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?
A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico.
What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats
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Minnesota Primary-Election Results
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South Carolina Primary-Election Results: Graham and Norman Advance
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Wisconsin Primary-Election Results: David Crowley Wins
The Milwaukee County executive defeated Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialist who was widely considered the front-runner in the Democratic primary for governor.
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An Israeli Satirist’s Bid to Save His Country’s Democracy
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The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
The Doulas Who Help Us Die
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What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi?
A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government.
Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party
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Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November?
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