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In the summer of 2008, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos dug into his personal venture capital fund to find some money to invest in a fledgling social...
Last year, Tucker Carlson traveled to Budapest to celebrate Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s aggressively illiberal and xenophobic prime minister, by...
On the one hand, the Supreme Court has opened the door to the destruction of the administrative state and limited the EPA’s ability to regulate...
Will he or won’t he? With a deadlocked 50–50 Senate, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has spent the past year reveling in his role as the...
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision to limit the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gasses from the power sector using...
The 53 men, women, and children who perished after being left in the darkness and stifling heat of a tractor-trailer abandoned on the side of a...
Donald Trump was the big loser in Tuesday’s primaries, when voters rejected several of his handpicked candidates in Colorado. A week earlier,...
On February 24, 2022, Russian troops began occupying Ukrainian territory in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear...
This week, the January 6 commission dominated the headlines with a surprise installment of its televised hearings, featuring former White House...
About one-third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have lost at least some of their hearing, and after 75 that rises to nearly half. Most...
Back when she could barely read, Grace McGarry would go into her mother’s room, bypass the children’s books, and head straight for Our Bodies,...
A spacious ballroom at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix was packed the weekend of March 11 with scores of Donald Trump loyalists still fuming...
In 1997, then-Justice Antonin Scalia voted with the majority in Babbitt v. Youpee, where the court ruled that the federal government couldn’t...
When the Supreme Court sits in October, having taken a break after its current bout of country-shaking decisions, it will decide whether...
Now that the Supreme Court has issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women Health Organization and Roe v. Wade is overturned, a larger question...
After the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization came out last week, many liberals took another look at how the...
Back in 2014, Iowa politics were at an inflection point, though it wasn’t yet apparent at the time. Back then, Iowa was still one of the...
For years, it has been fashionable to call Donald Trump “deranged” based on his inflammatory rhetoric and torrent of lies. But until the...
While the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade focused specifically on ending the federal right to obtain an abortion, it may have wide-...
Halfway through Edith Wharton’s 1913 novel The Custom of the Country , Ralph Marvell confronts his father-in-law. “Where’s Undine?,” he...
“That Tomato on Your Burger is Warming the Planet,” my morning paper warns. The environmental movement is full of admonitions against many...
Years after Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign thrust the threat of unregistered foreign lobbying back into the national spotlight, Congress is finally...
On the evening of November 9, 1989, thousands of East Germans—including a 35-year-old chemist named Angela Merkel—peacefully crossed into West...
I. Hundreds of pages before Coke Stevenson, the governor of Texas, first sets one boot in front of the other, on a dusty, deserted street in Alice,...