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Make History and Keep Your Word, Mr. President: Nominate a Black Woman

Make History and Keep Your Word, Mr. President: Nominate a Black Woman

A man sits in the pew of a church praying as sunlight streams through a stained glass window.

How Houses of Worship Became Hotbeds of Graft

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt

A man sits in the pew of a church praying as sunlight streams through a stained glass window.

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt

How Houses of Worship Became Hotbeds of Graft

Stephen Breyer’s Retirement Is Cause for Relief—and a Chance for Progress

The Supreme Court justice is retiring in time for the Democrats to replace him with a much younger judge: a Black woman, if Biden keeps his campaign promise.

Peter Doocy Is Definitely Stupid, but So Are Many Questions Pitched at Presidents

Peter Doocy Is Definitely Stupid, but So Are Many Questions Pitched at Presidents

The Lies Fueling California’s Package-Theft Panic

The Lies Fueling California’s Package-Theft Panic

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Spotify Is Getting the Full Joe Rogan Experience, and It’s Awkward

Neil Young’s threat to pull his catalog is only the latest predictable consequence of spending $100 million on the popular, controversial podcaster.

Rachel M. Cohen

The Bogus Claim That School Closures Will Doom Democrats

Pundits are acting apocalyptic about pandemic education policy and the midterms. The evidence paints a far shakier picture.