As the US celebrates its 250th, it has begun to resemble the decadent Spanish Empire it replaced: producing nothing while collecting rents, sacrificing its interior to enrich a bloated elite, and ...
After months of criticizing the Trump administration’s policies, conservative media figure Tucker Carlson announced he is ...
The idea that any of us alone see things clearly — and that anyone who disagrees is an adversary — is uniquely un-American ...
A new mandatory disclosure revealed that the president has earned $2.2 billion during the first year back in the White House.
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In the US vice-president’s new book, ‘Communion’, Vance seeks distance from Trump by positioning himself as just a regular ...
For most of the past two years, Washington’s approach to artificial intelligence has been simple: let the labs run. That changed on June 12, when the Commerce Department classified Anthropic’s newest ...
The US enters its 250th birthday admirable to some yet a cause of concern to many. Anniversaries are mirrors. The reflection confronting the US today is more combustible than the fireworks ...
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An Independence Day without common sense

Americans have celebrated Thomas Paine’s Common Sense for generations. What gets lost in the fanfare is how common sense is not some eternal repository of political wisdom, but something continually ...
Cocaine trafficking was a transparent excuse for attacking Venezuela. President Donald Trump ordered the midnight raid and seizure of the country’s president because he sought a bigger prize, not beca ...
On America’s 250th anniversary, Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights lawyer and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, looks toward the work that is ahead for the country.
On the new album Livin' in the USA, singer-songwriter Adam Weiner shows you how to protest and party at the same time ...