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WHEN AMERICAN presidents announce education policies, they are inevitably flanked by a phalanx of pupils. The executive order signed by President Donald Trump on March 20th...
Checks and Balance newsletter: Which past is MAGA promising to revive?
Russophilia was once an affliction of the American left, of socialists who made excuses for Stalinism or Soviet totalitarianism. No longer. One month ago, Glenn Greenwald,...
M ethadone is “the best tool we have” to fight opioid addiction, says Ashish Thakrar, a doctor at the University of Pennsylvania’s school of medicine. Yet...
Donald trump has probably not studied Antonio Gramsci but he doesn’t need to. He intuitively understands the chief insight of that Marxist theorist, who said that...
RESTORED QUEEN ANNE houses sell for more than $10m in Cambridge, a small city across the Charles River from Boston. Victorians, brick rowhouses and triple-deckers (three-storey...
There may not have been much of a common-sense argument left, let alone a legal one. Still, at least a pretence of respect for the courts...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance (C) exits the Oval Office in the opposite direction as U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk (R) walk away before...
“I ALWAYS ABIDE by the courts,” claimed President Donald Trump last month. A few weeks on, this commitment to respect judicial decisions is looking shakier. On...
ON AN UNSEASONABLY balmy March afternoon in Westbrook, Maine—a suburb of Portland, the state’s largest city—parents gather outside of Congin elementary school to collect their children....
