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A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.
Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn’t not refuse.
More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask.
As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.
By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the ...
People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.
From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in ...
In the first two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the number of abortions ...
Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s ...
The famous Venice Beach restaurant finally has an outpost in New York, but something is inevitably lost in the migration.
The actor and musician discusses how to “let it do you,” why almost dying was a gift, and his new album, “Slow Magic.” ...
The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.