Why colleges are going out of business
Higher education is in crisis. Last week, Hampshire College — a private liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts — announced ...
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Can Mayor Mamdani get Democrats back on track?
After a historic victory last fall, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked 100 days in office earlier this month.So ...
What to know about the Israel-Lebanon conflict
After six weeks of fighting, Israel and Lebanon appear to be on the verge of a ceasefire.President Donald Trump announced ...
Obama’s top Iran negotiator on Trump’s screwups
President Donald Trump, in between blockading the Strait of Hormuz and posting blasphemous AI images of himself as Jesus, claims ...
How fan fiction went mainstream, from Heated Rivalry to Fifty Shades of Gray
Archive of Our Own, or AO3, is one of the most popular websites in the world, with over 10 million ...
Pete Hegseth preaches “maximum lethality.” What has that meant in Iran?
Even before the Trump administration went to war with Iran, it was talking differently about its approach to combat.President Donald ...
Is the Iran war turning into Trump’s Iraq?
How closely does President Donald Trump’s war in Iran compare with America’s last conflict in the Middle East?Both the Iran ...
How one Democratic senator is tackling Trump’s corruption
President Donald Trump’s blatant, sometimes open corruption can feel disorienting. While other White Houses have made a point to show ...
Why Trump betrayed MAGA, according to Tucker Carlson
After five weeks of muddled messaging, President Donald Trump finally addressed the nation on Wednesday night to make the case ...
The larger stakes of Trump’s redesign of Washington, DC
While President Donald Trump has been flexing America’s might overseas, he’s also working to impose his will on the nation’s ...
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