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Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Trump Crosses a Crucial Line
But Americans can still choose a better path.
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Hyoung Chang / The Denver Post / Getty Public Schools Were Not Inevitable
Adam Harris on what American education owes to 19th-century abolitionists and reformers
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Alex Wong / Getty What the Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code Lacks
The written code of conduct nods at the public pressure the Court is facing, but it can’t do much to change the justices’ behavior.
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Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty The Juvenile Viciousness of Campus Anti-Semitism
Some of America’s students are embracing an ancient evil.
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Moviestore Collection Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo A Cathartic Watch
Entertainment musts from Elizabeth Bruenig
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Henrik Sorensen / Getty Why GOP Candidates Are Fighting About Shoes
In the primary race, low blows have been flying—including about candidates’ footwear.
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Bettmann / Getty Unserious Debates for an Unserious Primary
The quality of debates among America’s national candidates has plummeted—and the media must share the blame.
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Michael M. Santiago / Getty Ivanka Trump and Her Father’s Scandals
At the Trump Organization’s civil trial, Donald Trump’s daughter was thrust back into the spotlight.
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Ethan Miller / Getty Nikki Haley’s Big Test
The presidential candidate’s new momentum will come with new scrutiny.
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Michael M. Santiago / Getty Trump Plots Against His Enemies
Inauguration Day could be a national disaster.
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Mairo Cinquetti / Alamy Live News An Album About Fatherhood and Healing
Entertainment musts from Vann R. Newkirk II
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Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Overthrow the Tyranny of Morning People
Leave the clocks alone.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty WeWork’s Perfect Storm
The company is buckling under the weight of its own hype and bad timing.
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Chesnot / Getty Elon Musk’s Unrecognizable App
X has become a tool for its owner to do whatever he wants.
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Matthew Hatcher / AFP via Getty Could the Courts Actually Take Trump Off the Ballot?
A group of voters in Colorado are trying to use the Fourteenth Amendment to keep the former president’s name off the state’s 2024 ballot.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Stop Asking Americans in Diners About Foreign Aid
Instead, keep explaining it.
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John Fleenor / Disney The Old-Fashioned Charm of The Golden Bachelor
Entertainment musts from Sarah Laskow
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Jane Rosenberg / Reuters Sam Bankman-Fried Struggles to Explain Himself
The former FTX executive made the risky choice to take the stand in his own case. Will his verbal gymnastics serve him?
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Laurent Hamels / Getty The Meaning of Terrorism
When tragedy strikes, we should be careful about how we describe it.
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Bettmann / Getty The Murky Logic of Companies’ Israel-Hamas Statements
In recent weeks, public statements about the war have emerged from corporations of all kinds. Predictably, they have not all gone over well.
