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The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.

A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

A growing number of climate activists are taking up a fresh idea as a rallying cry and a legal strategy: Nature, in all its manifestations, is alive.

The country is sliding from an era of politics forged by social connections at the neighborhood level to one where cultural and ideological polarization dominates.

Republicans routinely criticized Democrats for rushing bills through Congress. Now that they’re in power, they don’t seem to mind.

RFK Jr. is prepared to rework the FDA’s official assessment of the abortion pill mifepristone based at least in part on a questionable report.

A new Supreme Court ruling shows how the American right has gone from fearing big government to embracing it.

The author is willing to let her main character be both her double and the butt of her joke.

Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.

What started as the adventures of a brilliant spy morphed into the mythology of an exemplary human being.

A swannery in southern England, tornado damage in Kentucky, drought conditions in the Florida Everglades, a rally race in a Chinese desert, and much more