Amid our semiquincentennial celebration, the religious right is promoting its own revisionist version of the nation’s ...

The conservative legal movement lost its bid to eradicate birthright citizenship, but its war on the Reconstruction ...

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American exceptionalism is an overblown and provincial tradition, but it’s our 250th birthday, so let’s indulge. As The New ...

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His 10-page opinion is strangely adrift from rhyme or reason, and it ends up reinforcing a far more extreme position than any ...

A close look at Trump’s latest financial disclosure reveals how he turned tariffs into a get-rich-quick scheme.

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The Department of Justice accidentally released the second volume of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on President ...

The fascist Italian dictator sought to remake Rome in his image. The fascist American president is trying to do likewise in ...

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