This Week / September 26, 2025

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One of New York’s high-rise housing projects.

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The greater question, still to be answered, is whether this will work.

Ross Barkan

Rahm Emanuel at Chicago’s City Hall in October 2011.

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The Democratic establishment’s golden boy has shifted the party to the right and lost ground in crucial elections.

Chris Lehmann

New Order

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ICEcapades.

OppArt / Eric Drooker

Gen. Francisco Franco with his handpicked successor, Prince Juan Carlos of Spain, in 1975.

How Franco Ruled Spain How Franco Ruled Spain

Two new books examine these dark decades in Spanish history.

Books & the Arts / Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín

A US Army team carries the the remains of Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, in Dover, Delaware, on July 22. Swinton was killed on July 19 at Erbil Air Base in Iraq.

Is the Era of US Military Bases in the Middle East Over? Is the Era of US Military Bases in the Middle East Over?

From CENTCOM commanders to Elliott Abrams, calls are growing to rethink US bases in the Middle East. Ending the war should include closing those bases.

David Vine

Trump’s Costly Vanity Projects

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Reflecting on taxpayers’ stolen money.

OppArt / Leonard Stokes