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The GOP’s Kevin McCarthy Debacle Is an Insurrection by Other Means

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Two years after January 6, Republicans are still locked in a battle for personal political power.

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Republican Freedom Caucus Pushes for New Committee to Investigate the Surveillance State

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Democrats fear the committee on “Weaponization of the Federal Government” will become a partisan cudgel.

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Biden’s Border Plan Drapes Trump Policies in Liberal Rhetoric

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The U.S. border regime is cruel whether it is enforced by a president spewing racist slurs or one appealing to “safe and orderly processing.”

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It’s Easy to Write a Memoir About War — but Hard to Write an Anti-War Memoir

Peter Maass

Lyle Jeremy Rubin’s book on Afghanistan wrestles with how to write about war without encouraging readers to follow his footsteps into battle.

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Financial World Celebrates Slowing Wage and Employment Growth in New Jobs Report

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In the debate over American workers’ welfare versus the Federal Reserve’s inflation-cooling rate hikes, the workers are losing.

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Sabri al-Qurashi Has Lived Without Legal Status in Kazakhstan Since His 2014 Guantánamo Release

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He was promised his freedom, but, with no U.S. pressure, his host country systematically denied him any semblance of normal life.

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