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Liberals Think Antifa Isn’t Real. But It Is—and It Knows How to Win. Liberals Think Antifa Isn’t Real. But It Is—and It Knows How to Win.

To protect us all from the violence of the Trump administration, we must defend antifa.

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Deportation and the Silence That Follows Deportation and the Silence That Follows

When ICE abducted my father without cause, something strange filled his vacancy.

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Renee Lives!

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“I never died,” says she.

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A New Era Has Begun

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Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on January 8, 2026.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem flank Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office, on August 25, 2025.

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Books & the Arts

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A display shows information about TikTok outside the Fox News building in New York City, 2025.

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Students in Khartoum hold up the Sudan flag during a protest on November 3, 2025, against atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher .

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Donald Trump is sowing division in the European Union, even as he calls on it to spend more on defense.

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A still from the video of the 1992 police beating of Rodney King. LAPD chief Daryl Gates defended the department’s racist police regime until he was forced out in the wake of King’s beating.

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