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“Liberalism always finds itself beleaguered at a moment of radical polarization,” journalist and historian James Traub writes in his deft and thoughtful biography of Hubert Humphrey to be published next month. While the right wing has organized around the destruction of liberalism and the far left denounces liberals as gutless sellouts, Traub argues that studying […]
By accepting that different candidates hold different Middle East positions, Democrats can avoid having their primaries become divisive, de facto policy referendums.
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The promise and peril of privately controlled data marketplaces for media content.
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Can a fractious continent unite to win the war against Russia and secure democracy in Ukraine?
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It’s not just 2020 election denialism. Now Trump’s gutless judicial nominees are pretending not to understand the 22nd Amendment.
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His journey to America was the most important since FDR entertained his grandfather in 1939.
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The late founder of CNN on how government protects big media—and shuts out upstarts like him.
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