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[ad_1] Jost’s emailed reply was succinct: He is clearly the most impulsive and unpredictable U.S. president of our lifetimes, so I think it is impossible to say. But based on …

[ad_1] For weeks Americans have been debating whether we’re facing a constitutional crisis. My answer, for the record, is that we are. But perhaps more than a constitutional crisis, we’re …

[ad_1] Day 65 When I joined protests against the looming Iraq invasion in 2002, my American friends thought I was being exceptionally brave because I was only here on a …

[ad_1] It is a wild thing to release a book into the world. “Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, has been out for a month and a half. …

[ad_1] Britain is sullen. Last year the Labour Party won the general election in a landslide that was a mile wide but only an inch deep. That vote, which gave …

[ad_1] About a decade ago, conservatives would often denounce Muslim immigration on the grounds that it threatened Western progress on gay rights. This posture, sometimes called homonationalism, got its start …

[ad_1] April 16, 2025, 2:44 p.m. ET On Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway, two spring car crashes, about a quarter-century apart, have exacted a death toll of five pedestrians. Nearly 24 years …

[ad_1] To the Editor: Re “Trump’s Strength Is His Greatest Weakness,” by David Brooks (column, April 25): Mr. Brooks is overthinking again. In his column, he praises President Trump’s energy, …

[ad_1] When the political scientist Rick Doblin founded an organization in the 1980s aimed at securing federal approval for the medical use of MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, his vision …

[ad_1] The conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart observed that politics is downstream from culture — that voters are more influenced by what they watch, listen to and like than by actual …