Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The One Color the White House Sees Clearly
Treating whiteness as a yardstick for normalcy isn’t the same as being blind to color.
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Sioux Falls Is Ready for Tom Hanks
A year ago, America’s Favorite Actor™, Tom Hanks, triggered a series of reports on TV and in the Argus Leader…
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Leah Millis / Reuters Leave Jews Out of It
Trump erred by bringing Israel into his Twitter attack against the “squad.”
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Erin Scott / Reuters Am I an American?
President Trump’s tirade against four minority congresswomen prompts the question: Whom does he consider to be American?
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Can’t Impeach Trump? Go After His Cabinet.
The story of William Belknap provides a way forward for Democrats.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters House Insurrections Are Here to Stay
There’s nothing new about a speaker managing dissent. And these fights are likely to intensify.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is
In a series of tweets attacking four Democratic congresswomen, the president reiterated his belief that only white people can truly be American.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Trump Goes All In on Racism
The president’s tweets are an invitation to a racial conflict that pits citizen against citizen, under the calculation that racism itself is a winning political strategy.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Biden Stops Playing It Safe
The former vice president goes on the offensive against the rivals to his left.
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Alan Diaz / AP Rise of the Know-Nothing Judge
The Fifth Circuit may be poised to accept a ridiculous argument against the Affordable Care Act.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Is Baiting Democrats
The president is trying to divide the House caucus and force it to fight the election on his terms. So far, it’s working.
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Paul Spella / Katie Martin An Epidemic of Disbelief
What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them
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Spencer Platt / Getty Trump Should Go Back to Where He Came From
The president would do well to take his own advice.
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‘A River, Not a Border’: Report From Brownsville
Brownsville is the southernmost U.S. border town with Mexico, down at the very tip of the map of Texas…
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters On the Road, Police Power Has Few Limits
Officers have wide discretion when they pull over motorists. And the courts keep giving them more.
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There’s No Understanding Donald Trump
It’s been barely two weeks since Donald Trump became the first American president to step onto North Korean soil, with…
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Malarkey Only Goes So Far
Even in defeat, the administration can’t stop trying to snow the public about a proposed citizenship question.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Robert Mueller Must Finish the Job
The special counsel should give us the benefit of his professional judgment on the legal significance of the facts he has found.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Best Way to Get Fired by Trump
The president’s new strategy for getting rid of scandal-tainted aides: Quickly accept their resignations, but heap praise on them as they leave.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Overhyped Feud Between Nancy Pelosi and AOC
There’s not as much disagreement between the speaker and the left flank of her caucus as their spat suggests.
