For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not...

One paradox of American politics is that voters are both extremely polarized about politics and extremely disdainful of political parties....

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It is believed that in the fourth century, European followers of the still-newish religion called Christianity first formally observed the...

In his second term, Donald Trump has crafted a foreign policy that is more radical than that of his first...

Three years ago, America was in the midst of an infant-formula crisis. Abbott, one of the world’s biggest formula producers,...

In my old life, I liked mornings, but I wasn’t a “morning person.” I would routinely stay up late watching...

The videos have become commonplace. Federal officers wearing masks and bulletproof vests subdue a moped driver in the middle of...

How do you cheat at a conversation? This could have been a Zen koan, in different times. In the unfortunate...

On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top...

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Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, is now on the path to becoming its first trillionaire. Tesla’s shareholders recently...

On July 18, President Donald Trump signed into law the boastfully named GENIUS Act. If the law wreaks havoc on...

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Amarjeet Kumar Singh / Anadolu / GettySilhouettes of people and monkeys make their way past India Gate amid smoggy conditions...