Politics
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What Brazil got right that America got wrong.
The data is solid. The vibes are atrocious. What gives?
The lasting lesson of Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign, explained.
Today, Explained explores the fall of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and what it proves about Trump-style authoritarians.
Trump vs. Colbert, continued.
How Finland almost fell to fascism — and didn’t.
And young Republicans are particularly enraged.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Trump, immigration, and fighting back.
The president just lost another battle in his war on democracy.
Yes, really.
Why did the US bomb Somalia more than 100 times last year?
When “mass deportation” gets to Trump country.
The end of the endangerment finding, briefly explained.
The “AWFUL” moniker is the latest way to express disdain for “annoying” women.
“This is not just an issue for immigrant families,” one expert said. “It’s an issue for all families.”
The February jobs report is not the “blockbuster” triumph President Trump imagines.
Why Catholics could be the key to Trump’s opposition.
Trump is struggling to check off his enemies list.
The US shut down a major city’s airport, and nobody is quite sure why.
You’ve become increasingly replaceable.
How election officials are thinking about Trump’s threat to the midterms.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is hanging by a thread.
Progressive Catholics are ready to fight back.
America’s Trumpiest court just gave Trump a dangerous new weapon.
Why it’s so hard to know whether the president is okay.
The uncomfortable truth about “the left” and “the right.”
The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.
Millions of files, zero accountability?
The US Senate candidate from Texas on why she believes voters — and nonvoters — are hungry for politicians like her.
The president falsely accused Haitians in Ohio of eating pets. Now he’s trying to deport them.
The president’s racism is making his party antsy.
The Super Bowl performer’s ties to a nascent independence movement are roiling Puerto Rican politics.
The short answer is that this Supreme Court loves gerrymandering more than it hates Democrats.
Wildfires are a growing threat. Do we need a new federal agency to help?
The immigration agents leaving Minneapolis, briefly explained.
This DOJ is no longer capable of doing its job.
His case has become a vehicle for a strain of anti-elite populism that’s growing across the political spectrum.
A federal court says deportation protections for Haitian immigrants will remain in place.
We’re about to lose our last nuclear arms control treaty with Russia. What does that mean?