Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.

Fear of Vladimir Putin going fully rogue has paralysed the West for long enough, writes Radek Sikorski

My last word on the story I shared about my TV appearance in Switzerland

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Melinda French Gates joined Olivia Rodrigo at her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields music festival, doubling a $10 million pledge to nonprofits

The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.

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On the bullshit our male counterparts do not have to deal with.

A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs.

The habitual trolling that serves him at home is sapping his potency on the global stage

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