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Can ICE arrest US citizens? Explaining agents’ legal authority

Questions surrounding ICE's arrest powers resurfaced after an agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026.

The controversy over Biden and Parkinson’s disease, explained

The murmurs about President Joe Biden’s health — and particularly commentary about whether he’s exhibiting signs of Parkinson’s disease — have reached a fever...

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Did you donate to charity in the past, but no longer do so?  If the answer is yes, you’re not alone. For the second year...

What the world can learn from Indian liberalism

Liberalism, it’s often said, is in crisis. Virtually everyone across the political spectrum agrees on that to some degree. But nobody agrees on what the...

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A key promise in Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics was that its famous river, the Seine, would be cleaned up in...

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“I don’t think we have enough hot dogs,” Julianne Moore’s character whispers gloomily in Todd Haynes’s 2023 film May December. The scene that quickly...

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If you were to write the history of modern American conservatism, where would you start? Maybe somewhere in the 1930s just before WW2? Or...

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