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Trump health secretary nominee RFK Jr survives heated hearings ahead of crucial confirmation votes

Robert F. Kennedy, President Donald Trump's nominee for health and human services secretary, survives two heated confirmation hearings but still faces crucial Senate votes.

4 of the biggest clashes between Patel, Senate Dems at his confirmation hearing

Patel squared off with Democrats for hours over his grand jury testimony in the special counsel probe, involvement with a J6 'inmate choir' and his previous remarks on QAnon.

Robert D. Kaplan’s new book darkly games out how peace and freedom can lose

Eighty years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered one of the most absurd lines in a presidential inaugural address, assuring the war-weary nation that “the great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward.” In fact, history has no sides or direction, and societies can both improve and decay. With mismanagement […]

Another book about my grandfather Whittaker Chambers puts politics before historical accuracy

Many historians date the (Second) Red Scare to 75 years ago this year. On Feb. 9, 1950, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy made his first anti-communist speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, now often known as the “Enemies From Within” speech. Days before, on Jan. 26, Rep. Richard M. Nixon had reported to the House on “The […]

The dilemma of Severance

Few TV offerings are trickier than what screenwriters call a “puzzle box” in its second season. Free of the inaugural run’s expository constraints, such a program can map exciting new territory but risks losing sight of its native shores. Characters once consigned to the background can step forward, but whether audiences will like them is […]

A union of Karens

If the word “union” conjures up an image of a man in a hard hat reporting for duty to an assembly line, your understanding of how organized labor has evolved over the past 50 years is a little out of date. The typical union worker today, according to the latest report from the Bureau of […]

The Trump impoundment reckoning has only been delayed

The Democratic Party and its allies in news media and the executive branch of the federal government are celebrating the White House Office of Management and Budget rescinding a memorandum intended to align federal spending with President Donald Trump’s executive orders. But the celebrations are likely to prove short-lived. Trump’s effort to halt federal spending […]

Trump tells senior FBI ranks to resign or be fired

President Trump is continuing to shake things up in his first 100 days and Fox News has learned that he has told high ranking FBI officials to resign or lose their jobs.

Watchdog says DOJ broke law by removing database on Jan. 6 defendants

A watchdog has challenged the Trump Justice Department's decision to erase the government's main database of Jan. 6 defendants from the web, saying it amounted to an illegal destruction of an official record.

Pat Barker’s other odyssey

The classics are having a moment. Not that they’ve ever fallen fully out of favor. But like any enduring cultural staple (Shakespeare, beards, long hairstyles) their fortunes wax and wane. Right now, they’re rising. Christopher Nolan announced that his next film, the follow-up to the blockbuster Oscar-winner Oppenheimer, will be an adaptation of the Odyssey. […]

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