DHS was created with a civil rights office to prevent the abuses we’re seeing now. Funny thing—Trump shut it down.

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The long arc of racist plunder through local tax codes is shocking—or, well, maybe it’s not, really.

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Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart • Bloomsbury Publishing • 2025 • 352 pages • $30 In 1964, when I was seven years old, my family took a day ...

When Elon Musk brought the U.S. government to the brink of shutdown over a spending bill in December, he boasted of a victory for democracy. As Musk described the outcome on X, which he owns: “Your ...

The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don’t by Didi Kuo • Oxford University Press • 2025 • 224 pages • $30 A s I write these words, the world awaits the inauguration of ...

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Roosevelt’s eight Supreme Court justices helped pen some of the Court’s best decisions—and some of its worst.