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A Secondhand Burden
A fire at a market in Ghana has more to do with us in the Global North than we’d like to admit.
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Trump’s Ukraine ‘Peace’ Plan
Trump and Vance display a profound failure to understand the hidden strengths of democracies—and the weaknesses of the authoritarian regimes they hope to emulate.
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‘The Church Is What We Do Next’
The final twist in 'Conclave' is hardly sensationalistic: it raises real questions about how the Church accommodates people outside binaries of sex and gender.
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Getting the Message
As Republican elected officials dodge their own voters, some Democrats are trying to fill the gap—but they'll need a lot more than “People's Town Halls” to win back trust.
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Was January 6 a Providential Event?
Trump is bad enough without the thought that his rogue regime has been sent by God as some kind of punishment.
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Cutting and Undercutting
Lee Zeldin’s agenda at the EPA matches the Trump administration’s broader approach: kneecap the government, and then complain that it doesn’t run well.
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More, or Else
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a vision of a progressive future in which Democrats stop getting in their own way.
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Crisis Mismanagement
Antisemitism—which is rife in the Trump administration itself—is now being used as a pretext for an authoritarian assault on universities.
