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On May 14, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Highlights from that first night are now available digitally as the “Land of Hope & Dreams” EP

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.

The Congressional Research Office, or CRS, has said that "hundreds or thousands" of space-based platforms would be necessary to "provide even a minimal defence" against incoming missiles - a potentially enormously expensive proposition.

The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of Mr. Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Yet more horrors are hidden in the fine print.

The Democrats neglected their voter base in 2024 and failed to respond to Trump’s campaign with anything beyond the maintenance of a bankrupt neoliberalism.

Public and private media under fire

Why Zuckerberg Is Sucking Up to Trump. The Sexy Paradox That Stumped Darwin. Why Putin Believes the War Is Defensive. Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” | The Daily Show. Trump and the Press | John Oliver.

Trump is not the first president to test the limits of authority. But the pace and scale of his defiance are without precedent. Courts are issuing rulings against many Trump decrees, but if there is a limit on presidential power, it is political.

The Joint List was a historic electoral alliance of Palestinian-majority parties. Ten years after its formation, this experiment in Palestinian unity inside Israel — and its ultimate collapse — shows the need for carefully cultivated alliances.