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Justice officials are obviously trying to insulate Jonathan Ross from accountability. And four senior career people couldn’t take it anymore.

Trump’s second-term crackdown on dissent started with pro-Palestinian activists. It didn’t end there.

Events keep demonstrating Donald Trump’s absolutely limitless claims of power to do anything. So nobody should be surprised at the resounding claim that his agents can kill people in cold blood, and they’re immune from any scrutiny.

Sit-Down Strikes Were Powerful; Now They’re Illegal (1937), Sixty-Two People Own the Same Wealth as 3.6 Billion (2016), Red Dye No. 2 Was Banned 50 Years Ago; Why Did It Take So Long? (1976), New York Gets the News About Racist Terror in Dixie (1868)

Donald Trump is weak and aggressive, while his advisors are unscrupulous. The mini-Nazis he has surrounded himself with are rushing to deploy military power to mask their total failure on the domestic front.

What does the Rhodes interview indicate about the future of Oath Keepers?

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.

Daniel Lazare argues that the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States (2024) follows the logic of an increasingly undemocratic Constitution

In the 1990s, a group of New Yorkers helped prove the effectiveness of a bold but simple approach to homelessness. Now Trump wants to end it.

Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.