America
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News
TikTok Could Disappear but the Problems It Poses Remain
America is politically polarized. But there is an issue on which both sides agree: We need more privacy and TikTok…
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Books
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Focuses on Forgotten Figures
An inaugural digital exhibition, “Becoming Visible,” traces the paths of five notable women whose stories have been largely erased.
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News
Four Ways of Looking at Christian Nationalism
Amid all the talk about the potential influence of Christian nationalism in a second Trump administration, and in the country…
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News
Why Authoritarians Like Saddam Hussein Confound U.S. Presidents
America committed its worst foreign policy mistake of the post-Cold War era when it invaded Iraq in 2003 to disarm…
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News
The Mystery of White Rural Rage
Will technological progress lead to mass unemployment? People have been asking that question for two centuries, and the actual answer…
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News
What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?
If you’re alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism, the single worst thing you can do is define it too…
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News
The Florida Fraudster and the Russian ‘Killer’
When I covered George H.W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 1988, he was so eager to wrap himself in the American…
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News
What the News and the Pews Have in Common
In the past few weeks, both The Atlantic and The New Yorker used the phrase “extinction-level event” to headline stories…
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World
Trump’s NATO Threat Reflects a Wider Shift on America’s Place in the World
Alliances that were once seen as the bulwark of the Cold War are now viewed as an outdated albatross by…
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News
My Father, Ronald Reagan, Would Weep for America
The night before my father died, Ronald Reagan, I listened to his breathing — ragged, thin. Nothing like that of…