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The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.

Trump’s profiteering is only the latest chapter in a decades-long transfer of American wealth and political power into the hands of billionaires…

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A worldwide backlash against oligarchy is gathering force, while America’s richest pour fortunes into keeping voters angry at everyone but them…

For ninety years Americans fought to keep the government from building one master file on each of us. This week Trump and Scott Bessent started one for every child in the country...

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.

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President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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