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As millions of Texas voters cast their ballots in an election that could determine control of the United States Senate, the rest of us can only hope they have gleaned the single most salient fact about Republican nominee Ken Paxton. As Texas attorney general, Paxton is technically the state's top law enforcement officer. And he is also an ...Read more

If there is any single person who bears responsibility for the Iran war and its calamitous consequences -- aside from Donald Trump -- it is his son-in-law and diplomat plenipotentiary, Jared Kushner. Bumbling but conceited, ill-informed but haughty, the New Jersey real estate heir (and his trusty sidekick Steve Witkoff, a Bronx tenement ...Read more

To contemplate the quarter-century that has passed since the 9/11 attacks, with all the momentous change that day wrought on our society, is to confront a disturbing fact: As a nation, we have learned almost nothing that episode should have taught us.

The consequence is that again we are facing extreme and even existential peril, stripped of ...Read more