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Times that try the soul

Trump's decision to halt funding for a variety of federal programs is "straight out of Project 2025, the far-right blueprint crafted by Russell Vought," said one lawmaker.

But just how real is the Gaza ceasefire? How enduring will it be? Many close observers of Israel are skeptical.

Donald Trump’s ultimatum to federal workers seems to be having the opposite effect.

One of the orders, titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” sought to withhold funding from any schools that teach that the United States is “fundamentally racist, sexist or otherwise discriminatory.”

What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today’s world.

The American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employee filed suit against the Trump administration challenging efforts to politizise the civil service.

Will limitless power meet unlimited resistance?

In a time of crisis, the Academy is offering a bulwark of humane consensus, though its blind spots remain.

The forces of Trumpian repression and neofascism would like nothing better than for us to give up. Then they’d win it all. But we cannot allow them to. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting.