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Biden Names Neera Tanden to Lead the Domestic Policy Council

WASHINGTON — Neera Tanden, a longtime Democratic adviser who is currently President Biden’s staff secretary, will serve as the director of the Domestic...

How to Police Gerrymanders? Some Judges Say the Courts Can’t.

WASHINGTON — Courts decide vexing legal matters and interpret opaque Constitutional language all the time, from defining pornography and judging whether a search...

A College President Defends Seeking Money From Jeffrey Epstein

It may seem, at first blush, an unlikely connection: Leon Botstein, the president of Bard, one of the country’s most progressive colleges, and...

Opinion | A nasty turn in the classroom wars invades an affluent N.J. suburb

Comment on this storyCommentBy now, many of the goals of the reactionary culture-warriors working to reshape American education are sickeningly familiar. They are...

Opinion | ‘Another 25K’ for Ginni Thomas? I have questions.

Comment on this storyComment“No mention of Ginni, of course.”That was Leonard Leo’s instruction to pollster Kellyanne Conway in 2012. Leo, who sits astride...

Big Promises From Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy, a 37-year-old entrepreneur and author running for president as a Republican, has never run for elective office before, but he has...

The Smooth-Talking Republican Who Would Rule by Fiat

Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican wunderkind running for his party’s presidential nomination, would like potential supporters to know he believes in the rule of...

Opinion | This is the solution to the covid learning loss crisis

Comment on this storyCommentThe covid-19 pandemic brought on a flood of loss — of lives, of jobs and, in a less-discussed tragedy, of...

The Koh-i-Noor and Cullinan diamonds: British crown jewels have fraught history

Comment on this storyCommentFor decades, Britain has been giving back its spoils of empire: the Stone of Scone to Scotland in 1996, Hong...

Opinion | Welcome home to (violent) America

Comment on this storyCommentHey, everyone, I’m back from Japan, where I spent the past two weeks. And I’m already feeling the cultural whiplash.Japan...

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