Taiwan’s leader, Tsai Ing-wen, owes her presidency to her pledge to preserve the island’s sovereignty. Her meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on …
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The New York Times Company added about 180,000 net digital-only subscribers in the second quarter of the year but generated less digital …
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Scientists have discovered ancient human footprints in Utah, traces, they say, of adults and children who walked barefoot along a shallow …
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As he contemplates a third straight run for the presidency, Donald Trump has a multimillion-dollar political machine and a network of tax-exempt …
Continue readingThe Bad Faith of the New Religious Right
Produced by ‘The Argument’ The sweeping rise of Christian nationalism on the right has taken extreme forms since the election of Donald Trump in …
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