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President Trump’s rancorous threat to abandon Ukraine is stoking support for a long-debated proposal to use billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets to buy…
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Will Harvard Bend or Break?
March 3, 2025
There would be debate about who struck the match that lit the fuse that spiralled around campus, but the sequence of events was plain enough…
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An op-ed co-written by Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Here’s another assumption punctured by the 2024 election: that gerrymandering and Democratic vote-clustering give Republicans a structural advantage in…
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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeking to eliminate public participation in many of his department’s policy decisions, a…
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The cost of FTX’s bankruptcy is approaching US$1 billion, cementing the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto enterprise as one of costliest Chapter 11 cases in…
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DOGE has a new ‘acting administrator,’ but Elon Musk is still in charge
February 26, 2025
As recently as last Wednesday, President Donald Trump made it clear: Elon Musk is in charge of DOGE. “I signed an order creating the Department…
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This Theory Is Behind Trump’s Power Grab
February 26, 2025
An article by Cass Sunstein: In his opening weeks back in office, President Trump is asserting power in a way that pushes hard on, and…
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10 Jewish highlights and controversies from 100 years of The New Yorker
February 26, 2025
This month, The New Yorker is marking its 100th anniversary as perhaps the country’s most influential magazine of longform journalism and literary fiction. It has…
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Some of DOGE’s Damage Can’t Be Undone
February 25, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is sowing confusion and chaos, ordering mass firings of government employees and canceling programs…
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‘Going with God,’ conservative Amish sue Ohio over lights law
February 25, 2025
In the 1960s, the Swartzentrubers — one of the most conservative subgroups of Old Order Amish — worked out a deal with the Ohio government:…
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Trump’s executive order on IVF: Here’s what it does and doesn’t do
February 24, 2025
White House staff are researching ways to lower the cost of in vitro fertilization in response to an executive order that President Donald Trump issued…
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Disability amid disaster: People with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by natural disasters
February 24, 2025
As Reda Rountree and her family packed their bags and prepared to flee their Highland Park home on Jan. 7 amid Eaton Fire evacuations, she…
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The Great Resegregation
February 24, 2025
The nostalgia behind the slogan “Make America great again” has always provoked the obvious questions of just when America was great, and for whom. Early…
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Arizona moves to ban AI use in reviewing medical claims
February 24, 2025
Arizona state lawmakers passed new legislation Thursday aiming to restrict the use of artificial intelligence in reviewing medical claims. If signed into law, the bill…
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With climate justice, US can do well by doing good
February 24, 2025
An op-ed by Cass Sunstein: With respect to climate change, might wealthy nations be able to do the right thing — and earn big returns…
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It may be one of the smallest federal court circuits in the country, but in the early days of the Trump administration, New England is…
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‘Existential questions’ around U.S. climate policy, but resolve, too
February 24, 2025
Actions by the Trump administration will almost certainly slow the shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources, but they won’t halt it, and energy…
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One of the most effective factors in containing the spread of HIV has been the widespread availability of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). A PrEP regimen—which has…
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The Trump administration late Wednesday tossed decades of environmental policy — laying the groundwork for an overhaul of how the federal government implements a bedrock…
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Trump’s Energy Plans Are Creating Surprising Opportunities
February 21, 2025
Energy has taken center stage in the first month of President Donald Trump’s second term. It’s the linchpin of his plan to tame inflation, because…
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Donald Trump is a reckless president, but not yet a lawless one
February 21, 2025
All American presidents eventually arrive at the realisation that they ought to have more power. But most do at least accept that Congress and the…