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China’s ascent is, in one sense, good news. More knowledge expands the global pool of discovery from which everyone can draw. The world benefits when science thrives. The problem is not that China is investing, but that the U.S. is not.

By the time the public learns what the Autonomous Warfare Center actually does, it will have been doing it for years.

After the Trump administration’s attack on Iran, experts say, threats of extremist violence are likely to rise in the U.S. In office for more than a year, counterterrorism chief Sebastian Gorka has yet to issue a blueprint to combat threats.

Trump’s appointee as the Board’s general counsel stops an NLRB trial likely to find the company guilty.

Like a magician, poet Tongo Eisen-Martin pulls words and images out of a hat filled with frightening wonders.

Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.

Last month, Vietnam marked the 58th anniversary of the Mỹ Lai massacre, when US soldiers killed hundreds of defenseless civilians. US public memory largely ignores the history of atrocities like Mỹ Lai, making it easier to repeat them in the future.

Not satisfied with the end of legal abortion in America, the anti-abortion movement seems poised to end the era of affordable contraception. The result isn’t just the end of Title X as we knew it. It’s the demise of a long-held bipartisan consensus

The first woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment is running for City Council. Her progressive campaign has been backed by Zohran Mamdani. Now Boylan is running a sewer socialist–style campaign that has resonated...from Trump-proofing New York...

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