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Politicians need to get realistic about what it will take to protect Social Security.
Politicians need to get realistic about what it will take to protect Social Security.
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In Sonoma County and Denver, activists are putting animal welfare on the ballot.
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It’s unclear how the Supreme Court will resolve an unusually messy death penalty case.
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The ominous implication of an outburst that ties two strains of right-wing thought together.
Rampant disinformation is getting in the way of disaster response.
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The justices appear skeptical of “ghost guns.”
The “care economy” agenda collapsed despite a Democratic trifecta. A divided government is more likely next time.
Victory in Pennsylvania might be all about losing by less in the other party’s strongholds.
Howard Stern and Alex Cooper do something the New York Times simply can’t.
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A year after October 7, Gaza may be turning into Israel’s “forever war.”
The acclaimed writer takes on another intractable problem.
Israel set out to reestablish military superiority. It succeeded — at catastrophic human cost.
Supreme Court journalists should tell the truth about what’s going on at the Court.
The dock workers’ strike could mean big wage gains but could further disrupt the fragile supply chain.
How the vice president seems to have fixed one of Biden’s biggest vulnerabilities.
The past year of war has been a nightmare for Palestinians, Israelis, and much of the planet.
With Israel’s Lebanon invasion, the Middle East is on the verge of chaos.
The state’s Republican attorney general took the rare step of asking the Supreme Court to set aside Richard Glossip’s capital conviction.
What young people want out of this election
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was killed in an airstrike. What now?
Musk and Republicans have embraced falsehoods that undermine the legitimacy of the election.
The Republican VP candidate isn’t a moderate, but at the debate Tuesday, he played one on TV.
Tuesday night’s Vance-Walz matchup was more civil and substantive than the Trump-Harris one — with enough for both sides to claim victory.
Vance’s “damning non-answer” on the 2020 election exposed the true stakes for democracy in 2024.
The stakes are high. Vance and Walz have just 34 days to make their pitches to voters.
The Court considers legalizing “ghost guns,” untraceable weapons that evade laws intended to keep guns away from criminals.
Why are tariffs the only tax that Congress doesn’t need to approve?
The justices return to Washington after an unforgivable betrayal.
Activists confront competing priorities, tactics and goals ahead of Trump and Harris’s match-up in November
SB 1047 would have been a landmark in AI safety. Gavin Newsom’s veto is a major setback in the fight against AI risk
Will Hezbollah escalate the fight against Israel?
Border crossings are down and enforcement is up. But what about progressive goals?
With more gun laws stifled, and a pandemic spike in violent crime, Democrats have a new message.
Fancy plane tickets, donations, and political favors: what to know about the charges.
The VP candidate loves to snuggle baby animals. He’s giving factory farming a progressive sheen.
On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.
The aesthetic of Cybertrucks, energy drinks, and MMA, explained.
A second Trump loss would change the GOP, but probably not in the ways conservative purists hope.
What Trump’s new positioning on reproductive rights tells us about the state of the GOP.