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"Now that Johnson is speaker, he will do what the Republicans never stop doing—everything in their power to cut our Social Security and Medicare, by hook, crook, or commission."

The IDF’s ‘three-phase’ operation would increase Hamas’s influence in the region rather than extinguishing it

In a new biography, the Velvet Underground front man embodies a New York that exists only in memory.

A month of renewed protest and repression

Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling Killers of the Flower Moon explores the rot beneath the myth of American exceptionalism.

Increased militancy after pandemic sacrifices and tighter labor market contributed to impressive contract deals in the last year

Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today. From The Wall Street Journal, 1/24/2009

The Court may be ready to scuttle remaining portions of the Voting Rights Act by giving states the ability to racially gerrymander by claiming that they’re only engaging in partisan gerrymandering. It's outrageous.

Increased militancy after pandemic sacrifices and tighter labor market contributed to impressive contract deals in the last year.

A church-run charter school is on track to open in Oklahoma — publicly funded but run by the archdiocese. The arrival of religious charter schools is one more piece of evidence that public charter schools are not so public after all.