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The left criticized administrative power, and then lost control of both the government and the narrative that surrounded it. About the author: Paul Sabin is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University.

Xi Jinping wants China to have a “world-class military” by the middle of the century.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, has indicated that he plans to schedule a vote for Wednesday to open debate on a new voting rights bill, the Freedom to Vote Act.

Rick Hasen, one of the nation’s foremost experts on the laws that hold together democracy in America, isn’t getting much sleep these days.

By fleeing to the political extremes, a co-equal House of Congress is abdicating its lawmaking power. About the author: Daniel Lipinski is a former U.S. representative from Illinois.

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The Democratic coalition has never been wealthier than it is today.

A CBC Marketplace investigation has found that some real estate agents are breaking the law by steering unwitting buyers away from low-commission homes.

It is not only the size of Zapad-21 that worries the West, though. The exercise spans Russia and Belarus, with thousands of Russian troops in the latter (see map).

Donald Trump wanted his July 2018 meeting in Helsinki with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to evoke memories of the momentous encounters that took place in the 1980s between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

You will note that good news bear Boris Johnson has given the old swerve-a-roo to the release of the Covid select committee report.

Tunisia, birthplace of the pro-democracy uprisings that swept the Arab world, now looks to many like a final confirmation of failed promise. The decade that followed, during which Tunisians adopted a new Constitution, gained freedom of speech and voted in free and fair elections, brought Mr.

One autumn afternoon a few years ago, I took the subway from my Brooklyn apartment to a mansion on the Upper East Side. I was nervous.

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As a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer in the early 2000s, I once received a call from a couple of Republican campaign operatives who said they had something to show me. We met at their office in Washington, D.C., a few days later.

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention. Forty-five years later, we revisit the story.