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A cache of internal emails offers a look at the pressure the nation’s public health officials faced from the new health secretary in the early months of the Trump administration. [...]
Divisions between the president and his party on Capitol Hill have muddled Republicans’ midterm pitch to voters, and have crippled the G.O.P. at what should be the peak of its power. [...]
President Trump abruptly scrapped plans to sign a major housing bill. It could still become law, with or without a presidential signature. But Mr. Trump could also try to kill it. [...]
A reform-minded Democrat, he served on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee and offered a pragmatic mix of progressive legislation and conservative fiscal philosophy. [...]
For the past 60 years, U.S. presidents have used and misused the concept of threat to justify the use of force on a massive scale. U.S. presidents in the post-World [...]
Any consideration of the newly opened Obama Presidential Center calls for a review of the Obama administration’s record of action. The building and its grounds are inconceivable outside of this [...]
A family arrives at a camp in Sudan carrying everything they still owned. A few cooking pots. Some blankets. Perhaps a plastic bag of clothes. They expect to stay a [...]
In a basic Marxo-Freudo 101 syllabus–which no longer complies with the spirit of Texas law–we learn that Artificial Intelligence is neither language nor labor. To speak language, you need to [...]
Remember Elon Musk running around in his DOGE garb with sunglasses and a chainsaw? The Republicans are hoping that you don’t. The ostensible point of Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” [...]