This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insight from our correspondents in America. James Bennet, our Lexington columnist, considers...
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. AH, TWITTER IN 2020. X was...
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IT DOES NOT bode well when a judge, before meting out a punishment, tells a defendant that his lack of remorse “borders on pathological”. Sure enough,...
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. The prosecutors trying to convict Donald...
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Polling suggests that most Republicans think...
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. ONE OF THE caricatures of millennials...
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. In August 1988 an inquisitive young...
BACK WHEN X was still Twitter, Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, was no fan of the social-media company. In May 2021 he heralded his signing of Senate...