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January 18, 2024

 

The mainstream press’s dark warnings about a flood of migrants are underpinned by a staggering ignorance about where asylum-seekers are coming from—and why they’re fleeing for their lives.

By James North

 

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Jamie Raskin and House Democrats unearthed dynamite. But they can’t subpoena. Senate Democrats can. So—will they?

By Greg Sargent

 

Conservative organizations want Republican lawmakers to block reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, falsely claiming that it serves as a “slush fund” for abortion.

By Melissa Gira Grant

 
 

Lawyers for Israel defended the country’s bombardment of Gaza with a polite, legal form of blackmail.

By James Robins

 

Alina Habba keeps making things worse for Donald Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case.

By Tori Otten

 
 

Representative Anna Paulina Luna is saying the quiet part out loud.

By Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani

 

Pay closer attention to what’s happening to the jurors.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

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A clever reporter put House Speaker Mike Johnson on the spot.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

 

Popular accounts of the Holocaust overlook its irrationality and often disordered violence.

By Samuel Clowes Huneke

 

At oral arguments, Chief Justice John Roberts emerged as the likely deciding vote in a case that will determine whether unelected judges take control of the administrative state.

By Timothy Noah

 

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