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They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” The stage for Trump’s particularly bloody equation of the border with the ...

Then, on Inauguration Day, he promised to sign an executive order by February 1 that imposes 25 percent tariffs on all goods ...

It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

A new common sense has emerged regarding the perils of predictive algorithms. As the groundbreaking work of scholars like Safiya Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, and Ruha Benjamin has shown, big ...

Down a tree-lined street near my grandmother’s house in Tehran is a mosque where locals go to chat, rest, and sometimes even pray. In the back of the mosque, behind a small library, is an office for a ...

On a Sunday in the summer of 1959, in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Senator John F. Kennedy rose to address the banquet of the annual meeting of the American Society for ...

Trump began his second term by signing a spate of executive orders, many echoing directives from his first administration. He promised tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico (as Dean Baker wrote ...