They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” The stage for Trump’s particularly bloody equation of the border with the ...

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It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

Then, on Inauguration Day, he promised to sign an executive order by February 1 that imposes 25 percent tariffs on all goods ...

In April 2024, as he was secretly completing his eighth feature film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian writer-director, received word that his final legal appeal had been ...

A new common sense has emerged regarding the perils of predictive algorithms. As the groundbreaking work of scholars like Safiya Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, and Ruha Benjamin has shown, big ...

On a Sunday in the summer of 1959, in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Senator John F. Kennedy rose to address the banquet of the annual meeting of the American Society for ...

Down a tree-lined street near my grandmother’s house in Tehran is a mosque where locals go to chat, rest, and sometimes even pray. In the back of the mosque, behind a small library, is an office for a ...

A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss. How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the ...