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Let this week be yet another reminder that plutocrats are a threat to democracy, not its saviors.

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Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe? Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe?

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The End of Arms Control? The End of Arms Control?

For the first time, we will live in a world without constraints on the US-Russian nuclear arsenal.

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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on February 3, 2026.

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Elon Musk peddles his vision of cosmic colonization at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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The tech mogul and would-be space pioneer is mashing up his properties once more in a deal that’s unlikely to achieve escape velocity .

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Books & the Arts

A World War II–themed party held by the residents of Rose Mount, Birkby, 1986.

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In the novelist’s work, she mocks English culture’s nostalgia, revealing what lies beneath the country’s obsession with its heritage.

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Sir William Gell’s “The Removal of the Sculptures from the Pediments of the Parthenon by Lord Elgin,” 1801.

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Is it Too Late to Save Hollywood?

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A conversation with A.S. Hamrah about the dispiriting state of the movie business in the post-Covid era.

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A Catalog of Gaza’s Loss

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Recording what has been erased—and making sense of what remains.

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How to Survive in a House Without Walls

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After their home was obliterated, Rasha Abou Jalal and her family remain determined to build a new one, even if it must be built out of nothing.

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How a Reactionary Peruvian Movement Went Multinational

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