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Why We Need a New Dickens

by Matthew Cooper December 25, 2025February 3, 2026

Bill Clinton and Jim Hunt had much in common as moderate southern Democratic governors in a conservative age. They were competitive but also friends.

What Bill Clinton Learned from Jim Hunt and Why It Still Matters

by Adam Shapiro December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

Shortly before airtime on Sunday night, CBS EIC Bari Weiss pulled a piece by 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Venezuelan migrants being sent to CECOT, a brutal Salvadoran prison.

The Trump Boomerang Effect: Bari Weiss, Meet Ozymandias

by Jonathan Alter December 23, 2025December 22, 2025

Maritime muscle: Greek-flagged ships in port—a sealift capacity NATO’s balance sheets don’t count.

NATO’s Myopic Accounting Ignores Maritime Superpower Greece

by Markos Kounalakis December 22, 2025December 20, 2025

graduate student loan cuts: the Trump administration hit a nerve when it defined nursing as not a "profession."

The GOP War on Nurses

by Paul Glastris December 22, 2025February 3, 2026

Donald Trump’s Go-it-Alone America

by Anne Kim December 21, 2025December 21, 2025

Death by Lightning.

Death By Lightning Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters

by Bill Scher December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

Shocking slayings at Brown University, Bondi Beach, and of the Reiners, plus the background music of Trump’s dysfunction cast a pall over the holidays.

Brown, Bondi Beach, and the Reiners: The Murderous December

by James D. Zirin December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

An Israeli flag lies at a memorial outside Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, on Monday, a day after 15 were shot dead at a Hanukkah celebration.

A New Path for a Free Palestine

by Jon A. Shields December 16, 2025December 16, 2025

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