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Edmund D. Fountain / The Washington Post / … What Does the Department of Education Actually Do?
With the help of Congress, a president could get rid of the agency. Getting rid of the programs it runs and the money it spends would be a different matter.
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Yulia Reznikov / Getty The Breaking Point for Eggs
The logic of egg prices is getting scrambled.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Two Truths of Trump’s Second Term
Chaos versus strategy is a misleading binary for understanding this presidency.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty A Handbook for Dealing With Trump Threats
The president is issuing similar demands around the globe—but a one-size response doesn’t fit all countries.
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Catherine McQueen / Getty Six Stories on Elite Schools
Read about how private schools can breed entitlement, the issue with college admissions, and more.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty What It Takes to Make Flying Safe
Near misses and accidents have to do with the whole system of aviation management.
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Kevin Dietsch / Getty What Trump’s Nominees Revealed
Takeaways from three Senate confirmation hearings
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty ‘Malicious Compliance’ Is Not the Issue With Trump’s Executive Orders
The president’s decrees are deliberately sweeping and chaotic.
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty Trump: A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama
What the president is after with his pledge to take back the waterway
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Raimund Koch / Getty A Weekend Reading List
Read about the secretive world of extreme fishing, new approaches to aging, and more.
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TCD / Prod.DB / Alamy A High-Octane Mystery Series
Culture and entertainment musts from Shayla Love
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Tom Brenner / Getty The Paranoid Thriller That Foretold Trump’s Foreign Policy
Some of the president’s policies are stranger than fiction.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Trump Targets His Own Government
A new executive order could enable Trump’s promise of revenge.
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Melina Mara-Pool / Getty Images Will Trump Keep the Cease-Fire on Track?
A conversation with Yair Rosenberg about Trump’s approach to Israel, Gaza, and the Middle East so far
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Douglas Sacha / Getty A True-Crime Reading List
Spend time with tales of an audacious prison break, a mobster’s downfall, and more.
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Catherine McQueen / Getty Soda’s Rebound Moment
Discouraging soda drinking has been a public-health aim for decades. But the beverage is still embedded in American life.
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Erin Schaff / UPI / Alamy The End of the DEI Era
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.
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Merrimon / Getty How Worried to Be About Bird Flu
A conversation with Katherine J. Wu about the spread of the virus so far
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Andrew Harnik / Getty The GOP Is No Longer the Party of National Security
America’s allies and enemies watched as Trump’s pick for defense secretary failed to quell concerns about his character and qualifications.
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Eric Thayer / Getty Time for Senate Republicans to Decide
The confirmation of all of Trump’s Cabinet choices isn’t a foregone conclusion.
