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The pervasive myths of a stolen 2020 presidential election and widespread voter fraud are still dominant in many state legislatures, as Republican policymakers call for more investigations and reshape election ...Read more

The Colleyville synagogue hostage-taking was a nightmare, a vicious, antisemitic attack on a vulnerable Jewish community. It is tempting to obsess on the antisemitism, to see it as the great, sole evil. But if we want ...Read more

For years now, conservative activists have decried “cancel culture,” the phenomenon of suppressing any speech or writing that offends liberal sensibilities. And it is, in fact, an alarming and annoying trend from the ...Read more

The Supreme Court granting review on Monday to two cases about affirmative action is an ominous sign for diversity in higher education and advancing racial equality. Given the composition of the court, it seems very likely...Read more

WASHINGTON — During his 2020 campaign, President Joe Biden promised to change federal policies to address long-term racial inequalities in the country, and his administration has touted some successes since then.

Biden ...Read more

Nancy Pelosi's plan to seek reelection extends one of San Francisco's longest-running, most-fevered political guessing games: Who will succeed the Democrat when she finally does step aside?

The announcement Tuesday by the...Read more

Montana is one of the least populated states in the lower 48, but what flows out of it reaches to the far corners of the U.S. Montana is the only state hosting rivers that empty into Hudson Bay to the east, Gulf of Mexico ...Read more

Despite the number of “breakthrough” infections with the omicron variant, California kids and their schools would be safer if more students were vaccinated against COVID-19. Two new bills aim to accomplish that — one...Read more

Why do Floridians have to pay the steep price for the insecurities of white, straight males of the extreme-right Republican persuasion?

Because they’re running the state.

Their latest assault on individual rights ...Read more

More and more of us are becoming political junkies looking for our next dopamine hit.

Dopamine, that pleasure reward in our brain, is offered as encouragement for most people when we do good things and is the reason our ...Read more

For all the talk about how political and media bias distort people’s perceptions of current events, another kind of bias may have an even greater impact: recency bias. Put simply, recency bias is the practice of giving ...Read more

Quincy, the county seat of Adams County in downstate Illinois, is a quiet town. Here residents vote conservative, prize neighborliness and don’t raise voices. Controversy isn’t courted.

But that changed when a judge ...Read more

The Democrats’ enormous tax and spending package, known as Build Back Better, has stalled in Congress with little hope of recovery in its present form. President Joe Biden said last week that he’d settle for enacting ...Read more

Health care spending in the United States far exceeds that of other Western nations and results in far-worse outcomes than in countries with single-payer systems.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports ...Read more

Should children as young as 12 be allowed to get vaccinated without their parents' knowledge or consent?

I was taken aback when I read that California state Sen. Scott Wiener has proposed a bill that would essentially ...Read more

I was a senior in college when I learned a gay man helped save the world.

True story.

Even after years of history lessons about World War II, I was well into my 20s before hearing of Alan Turing, the man most credited ...Read more

The nasty emails have started to come in, as I knew they would. "Why are you representing a rapist," they begin, and forget about all that Clarence Darrow stuff. "Why you?"

For starters, I'm not, and there is a very ...Read more

Could this be the beginning of the end for affirmative action?

We’ve heard that question before, especially after the Supreme Court’s 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision narrowly upheld the practice in college ...Read more