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The Grand National horse race in Liverpool, a Nepali New Year festival in Kathmandu, a stranded parachutist in France, an anti–Elon Musk event in London, and much more

Recent orders from the Trump administration run a real risk of muzzling professors like me who teach about the racism of the country’s past.

Accidentally sharing attack plans with a journalist in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is worse.

The justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported.

Vauhini Vara’s new memoir critiques the web in a novel way, turning its products into a kind of poetry.

The nation’s top public-health official has been promoting suspicions of the shot even as he offers comfort.

The justices exhibit a disturbing willingness to ignore the human costs of Trump’s actions, preferring instead to remain within the more comfortable zone of high-minded legal theory.

The Liberation Day pause is better than the Liberation Day policy itself was. But Americans are getting a raw deal one way or another.