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The two maintain that they won’t attack the program, but their repeated claims of rampant fraud serve a strategic purpose.
DOGE and its allies are forcing the civil service into a chaotic future.
AI actually is coming for your job now.
Half a decade on, we now have at least a small body of work that takes on COVID.
I find the decision to deport Mahmoud Khalil most remarkable for its pettiness, its insecurity, and its simultaneous failure to grasp the spirit of America and of academia at their best.
Some Republicans are beginning to fear what DOGE could mean for them and their constituents.
Doug Ford has become a proxy for his country’s fear and resentment.
The new film captures America’s pastime at its most blissful.
The Trump administration’s anti-vaccine playbook is becoming clear.
Novels about women’s communities tend toward utopian coexistence or ruthless backbiting. The Unworthy does something more interesting.
The Trump administration’s rapid terminations of NIH grants is its most aggressive attempt yet to control American science.
Israelis want an inquiry into October 7 not only for accountability but for closure.
A train-pulling record attempt in Egypt, long-term flooding in Ecuador, a fire-walking festival in Japan, Holi celebrations in India, a pro-Ukraine demonstration in Germany, and much more
Nothing I had done before could match the sense of accomplishment and sheer exhilaration.
Businesses cannot thrive under this much uncertainty.
Symbols aren’t just symbols.
The quest to win back the men lost to MAGA opens a rift over class and gender that party leaders are struggling to close.
The Trump administration has identified another legal permanent resident it wants deported.
The president threatened allies with an invasion and hit them with tariffs. For Putin, he had only praise.
Democrats insist that this is a dire moment for the nation. A government-funding deadline is a chance for them to show that they mean it.
The show turns reality stars against one another for TV that is part camp, part satire, and pure genius.
Creating a narrative out of a relationship is near-impossible, but that hasn't stopped people from trying.
The car company’s fortunes are riding on Elon Musk’s future.
Archival images from the last weeks of World War II, taken by an American Army combat photographer during a push across eastern France into southern Germany
Creativity comes with a risk of narcissism and deceitfulness. But you can arm yourself against that.
Shocking revelations often used to lead to meaningful governmental reforms. But not in the age of Donald Trump.
“Competence is controversial.”
Cristina Rivera Garza’s newly translated novel evokes a mixture of numbness and anxiety in the face of incessant violence.
The Department of Government Efficiency’s seizure of government databases is not just an act of bureaucratic reorganization. It is an act of constitutional restructuring.
The Israeli prime minister ignores the views of the majority of his people.
Gaza is struggling to keep clean water flowing.
In promoting Elon Musk’s car company, Donald Trump showed just how far he’ll go for his allies.
How to lose $148 billion in less than two months
Albert Barnes believed in the liberating power of art—but you had to look at it his way.
In his new film, Mickey 17, the director brings his preoccupation with classism to outer space.
Sadegh Zibakalam is in trouble again for criticizing Iranian foreign policy.
Musk has turned a deeply flawed view of “waste” into a philosophy of government.
The Palestinian American sitcom is the first of its kind—and takes its humor very seriously.
American higher education would be in a much stronger position today if it had made a proactive case to the public for its own importance—and taken steps to address its very real shortcomings.
Science has to be able to defend itself.
The opioid dispensers’ Trumpsplaining dulls the pain but dims the brain.
The president and his aides are changing their minds at nauseating speed.
The president promised millions of deportations, but reality has intervened.
Chaos, tariffs, and some very bad vibes
It’s the Trump administration, not Columbia, that has done nothing to confront anti-Semitism in its own ranks.
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
And I’m riddled with mom guilt.
President Trump’s tariffs are poised to make fruits and vegetables even more expensive.
A collection of some of the winning and shortlisted photos from this year’s competition
Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against all sorts of airborne diseases.
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