Read Mary Trump on Donald peddling the Second Big Lie: that January 6 was just legitimate protest.
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Now, he and his GOP enablers are peddling the Second Big Lie: that January 6 was just legitimate protest. It’s the crucial ingredient in convincing America to return them—and him—to power.
Our foreign policy wise people responded to 9/11 by embracing belligerence. What, if anything, have they learned?
Activists are beating back Republicans’ virulent attacks on trans rights. But the battle is costing the trans community.
Conventional wisdom says the Democrats are finished after the midterms. But the conventional wisdom might be wrong.
The Radicalization of Clarence Thomas
His time working for Monsanto and other polluting industries helped make him the fierce conservative he is today.
The New WikiLeaks
How a transparency collective eclipsed Julian Assange
“Reopening”
A tenuous note of shared victory
Critical Thinking
Conservative parents win school board seats by promising to fight “critical race theory.”
Decades of Fear
How the War on Terror undermined American democracy
Lengthening Shadows
Why W.G. Sebald kept returning to the horrors of the past
Empathy Exams
Is there a place for human connection in Richard Powers’s intricate novels of ideas?
Unfinished Business
What the revolutionary groups of the 1960s left undone
State of the Union
The early history of the American republic has come to carry too much meaning.
The First Amendment Under Fire
Can the ideals of free speech and social justice be reconciled?
