President Trump’s state of the union address last night was very like the man who delivered it: divisive, abusive, and...

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In 1952, President Harry Truman asserted his power as commander in chief to seize America’s major steel mills. He insisted...

The longest State of the Union in modern history is now over. Donald Trump held court in the House of...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to...

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Here’s how much things have changed since Donald Trump last addressed Congress: A year ago, he shouted out a beaming...

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Donald Trump has assembled the largest U.S. force in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq in early 2003,...

On a sunny Monday last November, I filed into a single large room in Washington, D.C. There I saw a...

Over the past few months, during his agency’s chaotic crackdowns in Chicago and Minneapolis, the U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg...

A year after the Trump administration began the dismantlement of USAID, it is initiating a new round of significant cuts...

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Before he became a filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman was a professor who was in over his head. Wiseman had gone to...