Republican power grabs and hyper partisanship are just part of his grim reign as Senate Republican Leader.
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Washington’s Hundred-Year War on Gays
A rich, harrowing chronicle of the federal government’s oppression of homosexuals in the 20th century firmly refuses to draw any connection to today’s struggles.
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Stop Thanking Vets and Start Listening To Them
The National Book Award winner for fiction offers essays that help explain and bind our post-9/11 wounds.
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America’s Black Founders
David Hackett Fischer demonstrates the centrality of people of African descent in shaping this country’s regional cultures.
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Wrecking the College Pecking Order
Much of higher education has a love/hate relationship with college rankings: love them when their college does well, and refuse to recognize their existence if they ever drop a spot. But most colleges—and selective institutions in particular—play the rankings game in two key ways. First, they spend considerable time and effort putting together data for […]
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Neoliberalism Is Dying. What Comes Next?
History shows that the period between the end of one political order and the beginning of another is a time of maximum danger.
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The Watergate Anniversary and the Liz and Dick Cheney Paradox
The Watergate scandal, now 50, was the executive and congressional showdown of its time. Today, as Liz Cheney investigates Donald Trump, her father bears much of the blame for Trump’s imperial presidency.
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Two Cheers for the Senate Gun Deal
The compromise won’t solve the gun problem, but it’s a step toward a better understanding of it.
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I Had an Abortion and Kept Silent. No More.
I’m speaking out now because, as a political consultant and a woman, I believe sharing abortion stories publicly is essential to reclaiming our endangered reproductive rights.
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Giuliani’s Intoxication, Trump’s Big Rip-Off, and Other Tales From the January 6 Committee Hearing
In its second public hearing, the committee exposes a White House as laughable as it was criminal.