The long arc of racist plunder through local tax codes is shocking—or, well, maybe it’s not, really.

DHS was created with a civil rights office to prevent the abuses we’re seeing now. Funny thing—Trump shut it down.

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Gerrymandering is not a new problem in the United States. Even the founding generation was not immune to its temptations: Patrick Henry famously attempted to have Virginia’s very first congressional ...

When Elon Musk brought the U.S. government to the brink of shutdown over a spending bill in December, he boasted of a victory for democracy. As Musk described the outcome on X, which he owns: “Your ...

The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...

Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart • Bloomsbury Publishing • 2025 • 352 pages • $30 In 1964, when I was seven years old, my family took a day ...

The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don’t by Didi Kuo • Oxford University Press • 2025 • 224 pages • $30 A s I write these words, the world awaits the inauguration of ...

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Being tough on criminals hasn’t worked, but neither has being lenient. Here’s how to prevent—and punish—crime the right way.

We may not leave Baghdad with Iraqis scrambling to the roof of our billion-dollar embassy and clinging to the struts of departing American helicopters, but we will likely bequeath a state incapable of ...