The president wants to remove lead from drinking water, but the ailing Michigan city needs more than just an infusion of federal money.

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Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB’s general counsel, is making sure Biden’s pro-union agenda actually gets enforced.

Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?

The lib-trolling Trump sycophant is at the top of most Democrats’ 2022 lists. He’s certainly beatable. But that’s what everyone thought in 2016, too.

The town’s lefties might not be notching a lot of wins, but they’re having a lot more fun.

How the Maryland representative became the man for this historical moment

I worried for my daughter and son-in-law, hiding elsewhere in the Capitol. And I drew strength from the memory of my lost son.

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See what has Sherrilyn Ifill, Mehdi Hasan, and others concerned

The House Democratic Caucus is often accused of being a quarrelsome bunch. But is this just what politics looks like?

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The author of “Crime and Punishment” had a love-hate relationship with the true-crime obsessions of his era.

Pedro Almodovar’s new movie with Penelope Cruz is his most explicitly political.

Biographers get distracted by the photographer’s unusual life story—to the point of diminishing her work itself.

Who Peter Thiel is does not really matter. What matters about him is whom he connects.