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What if There’s No Way to Stop Trump’s Approach to Power?

Opinion by Ross Douthat on April 19, 2025. President Donald Trump may forever reshape the boundaries of executive power. For his new New Yor...

What if There’s No Way to Stop Trump’s Approach to Power?

Opinion by Ross Douthat on April 19, 2025. President Donald Trump may forever reshape the boundaries of executive power. For his new New Yor...

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Fareed Zakaria argues that Trump’s tariff policies echo the self-defeating protectionism of the 1930s, driven by nostalgia rather than economic reality. (Video Screenshot)

Zakaria Draws Parallels Between Trump’s Tariffs, Failed 1930s Economic Policies

Fareed Zakaria says Donald Trump inherited a strong U.S. economy in 2017 but disrupted it with sweeping tariffs, a move he compares to the S...

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Americans Haven’t Found a Satisfying Alternative to Religion

(Believing) On Sundays, I used to stand in front of my Mormon congregation and declare that it all was true. I’d climb the stairs to the pul...

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I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future

So much crazy happens with the Trump administration every day that some downright weird but incredibly telling stuff gets lost in the noise....

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Why Is It So Expensive to Build Affordable Homes in CA? It Takes Too Long

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The spiraling cost of housing in California has affec...

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Cattle on a farm in Sidney, Ohio on April 30, 2024. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

What Some Animals Endure Before We Eat Them

Nicholas Kristof The New York Times April 12, 2025 Countless dirty secrets swirl around the way animals on factory farms live, but an even u...

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Fareed Zakaria warned that Donald Trump's tariff reversal signals a shift toward crony capitalism, where political favoritism could undermine America’s free-market principles. (Video Screenshot)

Zakaria Warns of ‘Crony Capitalism’ in Trump’s Tariff Reversal

Political commentator Fareed Zakaria criticized former President Donald Trump’s recent tariff reversal on Sunday, warning it could usher in ...

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How California Can Reduce High Concession Prices in Its Taxpayer-Funded Stadiums

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 1978, the San Francisco Giants announced a nickel ...

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Why Palestinian Christians Feel Betrayed by American Christians

The group in America that I’d say is most fervently urging President Donald Trump to crush Palestinian hopes for a state is not the Jewish c...

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Other States Do Housing Better Than California; a New Study Shows How They Do It

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.Overwhelmingly Californians rate the intertwined issue...

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on upon his arrival at the Quai d'Orsay, France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before a bilateral meeting with his French counterpart in Paris, France April 17, 2025. (JULIEN DE ROSA/Pool via REUTERS/File photo)
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As Controversies Pile Up, Trump Allies Increasingly Turn on One Another

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