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“We should stay inside tomorrow,” my boyfriend said on Friday, October 16. While I’d been cleaning up after a dinner party we’d hosted for a friend visiting Paris, he’d been watching social media videos saying that Saturday, October 17, would be unlike any other demonstration day in France, a country that sees many. Student demonstrators, who have protested poor learning con...

While taking control of the U.S. Senate seemed out of reach for Democrats at the beginning of the year, probabilistic election forecasters now put the chances of a

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s intention to publicly live-stream the military’s December execution of American Muslim Nidal Hasan by firing squad proved to be too much even for President Donald Trump. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gunned down 13 people and injured 32 others when he opened fire in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas. He said he had “switched sides” in the U.S.-Afghanist...

Here’s a grim reality that few would have predicted in the 1990s: Neo-Nazi rhetoric and ideology have found a place in American political discourse. You don’t have to believe America is fascist to become alarmed that crackpot rhetoric has found its way into the national dialogue. Review the ravings of Timothy McVeigh, watch footage of a neo-Nazi rally, or even sit down with ...

On a simmering June afternoon in Richmond, Virginia, well after school has let out for the summer, four teenage boys in frumpy suits stand at the front of a poorly air-conditioned classroom, sweating and talking over one another. They are arguing about American military interventions—do they lead to power vacuums and repressive puppet states, or prevent genocides and deter b...