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Can You Understand Ireland Through One Family’s Terrible Secret?

In Missing Persons, Clair Wills’s intimate story of institutionalized Irish women and children, shows how a family’s history and a nation’s...

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What Explains Trumpism?

It’s capitalism, and it’s global.

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Enough With the Bad Election Takes!

To properly diagnose what went wrong, we need to look at the actual number of votes cast.

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Elon Musk’s Quest for Domination Has Gone Global

Having established power over Republican politics in the US, the industrialist is now intervening in European politics—and is himself becoming a...

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Donald Trump Is the Authentic American Berserk

Far from being an alien interloper, the incoming president draws from homegrown authoritarianism.

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The Difference That Matters Most Isn’t Between Left and Right

But between candidates who are defenders of the system and those who are anti-system. Democrats lost because they allowed Trump to be the only voice...

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What Happened to the Democratic Party?

The squalid state of our present political institutions points to a failure of not just individuals but the system as a whole.

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China tightens censorship of short-form video dramas

China's National Radio and Television Administration released a new "classified and tiered review" system to tighten censorship on microdramas on...

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Inmate Only Pretended to Take Mind-Altering Drugs : Ruse Saved Sanity, Soviet Dissident Says

VIENNA — For almost six months, Viktor Davydov conned doctors in a Soviet psychiatric prison into thinking he was taking the mind-altering drugs...

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How the Blazes in L.A. Got Swept into the Culture War

“Nobody's defending Gavin Newsom,” the staff writer Jay Caspian Kang says. “I think he’s probably in a lot of trouble. And I do think that...

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