Politics

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‘We Voted for Retribution’

Over the next four years, some $45 billion will be spent on ICE detention centers, which will hold mainly people who have never been convicted of any crime.

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Can This Man Save Harvard?

To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.

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The Supreme Court Won’t Explain Itself

In their decision allowing the Trump administration to dismantle the Department of Education, the justices didn’t offer one word of reasoning.

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How Putin Humiliated Trump

The real reason the president suddenly sounds tougher on Russia