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Donald Trump speaks onstage at the "Save America March."

Did Trump and His Supporters Commit Treason?

Few events in American history have matched the Framers’ definition as clearly as the insurrection of January 6th.

Daily Comment
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The Biden Administration’s Landmark Day in the Fight for the Climate

The newly announced actions may well mark the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel era.

Letter from Biden's Washington
Joe Biden signing executive orders at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office

Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again?

Reflections on a post-Trump week of refreshingly Presidential behavior and predictably partisan feuding.

Letter from the U.K.
A grid of images featuring a helicopter, a man on the floor, a person's hands typing, and people on a bus.

Adam Curtis Explains It All

The British filmmaker’s new series argues that we have given up on the future.

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Jerusalem viewed from the West Bank side of the separation wall

Why an Israeli Human-Rights Organization Calls Israel an Apartheid Regime

There is no guarantee that B’Tselem’s statement will enable change, although it has infuriated the government.

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Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders look at each other from their debate lecturns.

What Can Liberalism Learn from the Defeat of Donald Trump?

The election of Joe Biden was a vindication of the view that the strength of liberal democracy lies only in the strength of liberal institutions.

Personal History

Living with a Visionary

For more than fifty years, my wife and I shared a world. Then, as Diana’s health declined, her hallucinations became her own reality.

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Two children play beside a trailer.

A Bold Proposal to Ease Child Poverty Is the Essence of Bidenomics

By targeting Americans that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, and also addressing lasting inequities, the new Administration is approaching this moment as one of great potential as well as great peril.

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What Are the Cultural Revolution’s Lessons for Our Current Moment?

The great question of China’s Maoist experiment now looms over the United States: Why did a powerful society suddenly start destroying itself?

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Kevin McCarthy Stuck with Check for Lunch at Mar-a-Lago

President Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy sitting at a table

“Even if you count all the Diet Cokes, that was a lot,” one staffer said.

5:38 P.M.

How Alexey Navalny Survived an Assassination Attempt and Reignited Protests in Russia

A large crowd walks down a sidewalk in Russia.

Do the tens of thousands of Russians protesting the arrest of a leading dissident pose a threat to Putin?

4:39 P.M.

Some Personal Failings in Winter Lockdown

Woman overwhelmed and sitting on the couch.

Forgot how to pronounce your own name? Too gutless to cut your own bangs? Join the club.

2:00 P.M.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Making Americans Nostalgic for Wisdom of Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin holding a hand up while speaking into a microphone

“At the time, I thought she bombed her interview with Katie Couric,” one respondent said. “Looking back on it now, I think she kind of nailed it.”

11:48 A.M.

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 28th

“Oh, those trophies? Father says we come from old GameStop money.”

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A Philip Glass Opera in Stop-Motion

Boston Lyric Opera streams a film of Glass’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which sets Edgar Allan Poe’s tale in a doll-like world populated by star-crossed characters.

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How to Make Sense of Scents

Can language ever capture the mysterious world of smells?

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Restoring America’s Belief in Government

Despite the gravity of the challenges ahead, President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris are setting out with some distinct advantages.

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sunrise

“The Wind”

“Mama, we need to drive, my mother said. We need to drive now. We need to go.”

Video

The Seminole Tribe Perfected Alligator Wrestling

“Being able to be so close to an animal who is so powerful and has lasted so long, you have to show it respect.”

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Jane Mayer and Evan Osnos on the Balance of Power in a New Washington

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden with their hands on a bible in front of a large US flag.

Two New Yorker political writers on the early days of President Biden’s agenda, and the limits of the Democrats’ control. Plus, a lesson in digital archeology.

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