The playbook Trump is following to deport protesters
The Trump administration has been arresting and detaining protesters who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. They have justified the action by ...
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How Trump’s tariffs could help China
President Donald Trump’s new tariff chart, which he unveiled Wednesday at the Rose Garden, had a mixture of surprising and ...
How not to text, explained
It’s been a big week for the group chat. On Monday, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a story revealing ...
One big reason for fewer babies: phones?
All across the world, people are having fewer children. The birth rate is declining quickly in countries ranging from the ...
The man whose tweets helped kill DEI
Four years ago, Richard Hanania was a little-known right-wing intellectual, one of many posters building a brand with tweets and ...
The man trying to capture the internet before it disappears
Government websites have undergone massive changes since President Donald Trump returned to office.Some of the changes are routine — like ...
Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s spy chief makes sense, actually
Former Democratic presidential candidate and US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii has had an unpredictable political career.But ending up as ...
How Greenland feels about Trump, explained by a Greenlander
Greenland is the world’s largest non-continental island, and it takes up space rent-free in President Donald Trump’s head.Since 2019, Trump ...
How weight-loss drugs ended the era of “lifestyle changes”
When drugmakers pulled the weight-loss drug fen-phen off the market in 1997, my mom was devastated. Not because the FDA ...
Sports gambling should have stayed in Las Vegas
Sports betting feels like it’s everywhere. Ads for online sportsbooks like BetMGM, DraftKings, or FanDuel are ubiquitous, whether on social ...
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