April 5, 2022
How Viktor Orbán Built His Illiberal State
Fidesz’s victory Sunday was the culmination of many events that, once upon a time, we thought couldn’t happen here.
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April 4, 2022
March 28, 2022
Why Teachers Are Afraid to Teach History
The attacks on CRT have terrified our educators. But the public school system has always made it hard to teach controversial subjects.
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March 24, 2022
The End of Russia Today
The openly biased, often silly news outlet RT America recently shut down. What have we lost?
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March 17, 2022
March 9, 2022
Too Fast or Too Furious?
More people are dying in traffic crashes. Is pandemic rage to blame?
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February 23, 2022
February 21, 2022
When Your Doctor Isn’t a Doctor
Thousands of urgent care clinics have popped up over the last decade. How safe are they?
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February 16, 2022
Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest
The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.
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February 14, 2022
The Losing Democrats Who Gobbled Up Money
Amy McGrath and other Senate candidates deceived donors to rake in far more cash than their Republican opponents. They got crushed anyway.
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February 10, 2022
Washington Is Not a Swamp
Ignore the lazy conventional wisdom. The nation’s capital is the most public-spirited city in the country. By far.
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February 3, 2022
Boris Johnson’s Wine-Party Woes
Britain elects clown as prime minister. Clown attends parties. Circus turns on clown. What does clown do next?
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January 19, 2022
Why Joe Biden Gave Up on Covid
The president ran on ending the pandemic. What happened?
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January 10, 2022
The Shock Troops of the Next Big Lie
How the Christian nationalist movement’s well-funded strategists are aiming at voters in Virginia and beyond for 2024
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January 5, 2022
January 3, 2022
Jamie Raskin, Democracy’s
Defender
How the Maryland representative became the man for this historical moment
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December 30, 2021
House Democrats Are Not in Disarray. Mostly.
The House Democratic Caucus is often accused of being a quarrelsome bunch. But is this just what politics looks like?
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December 8, 2021
The Illiberal Upstarts Trying to Reinvent the American Right
Meet the young intellectuals who think the culture war is not being fought hard enough.
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December 7, 2021
Six Heroic Defenders of Democracy
The assault on voting rights advances full bore. These people are fighting back.
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December 2, 2021