Several of the recent high-profile cases of immigrant detention share something in common. The Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, University of Alabama engineering doctoral candidate Alireza Doroudi, Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk …
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‘You See What’s Happening in America With Elon Musk? We Need the Same Thing Happening Here.’
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 Labour a commanding majority on a vote share of 34 percent, reduced the Conservative Party to a …
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The Chaotic First 100 Days of Trump 2.0
More from our inbox: Cutting RegulationsA Project for DemocratsA General’s Call to ArmsHow to Age WellPhoto Illustration by Naila Ruechel for The New York Times.Credit…Photo Illustration by Naila Ruechel for The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re …
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Trading Mere Survival for a Chance at Stability
Da’Monya Cavitt tiptoes down the stairs of the house in Vallejo, Calif., that he shares with his father and two other refinery workers. He moves quietly — everyone else works night shifts, and he’s careful not to wake them. The curtains stay drawn …
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$1.3 Million Homes in California
A Spanish Revival house in Riverside, a midcentury-modern home in Palm Springs, and a three-bedroom Craftsman in Berkeley.
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A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars
In his first hours back as president, Donald J. Trump did an extraordinary thing: He made a direct assault on the Constitution. He declared that his government would no longer treat U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants or children of lawful …
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All Good Things Come to an End. What About Bad Things?
Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. I’m having a flashback to April 2017, just after my arrival at The Times from The Wall Street Journal. It was, uh, a bit of a hard landing. You introduced yourself, told me you co-wrote an online column called “The …
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If You’re a Voter Reading This, This Essay Is Not About You
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 politicians. As a Democrat who works on presidential campaigns, I …
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Will Tech Billionaires Move Fast and Break Our Brains?
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 was nothing short of utopian. He thought the psychedelic drug, which can …
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