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The Supreme Court recently has handed down some momentous decisions on tribal sovereignty. Another case looms: In Brackeen v. Haaland, the justices will hear the most sweeping challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act since its passage in 1978.
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Liverpool have, in recent years, been a model for financial prudence and efficiency: Cleverly selling players and reinvesting wisely helped build an entertaining club that competed for titles. That may be impossible in the Premier League now.
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. wrote two books about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. Unger often wondered: How is it possible that I knew all sorts of stuff about Trump, and the FBI didn’t seem to have a clue? Or if they did, why weren’t they doing anything with it?
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One of the biggest opportunities for putting the Biden administration's 30x30 conservation goals into action now seems stuck in legislative limbo, writes.
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Joe Manchin claims to be worried about electric vehicles relying on foreign lithium. The best way to fix that would be walkable cities and great public transit, writes.
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Why is policing considered a purely local matter in the United States, especially when we see these tragedies repeat themselves in Minneapolis and Louisville and Dallas and Memphis and so many other places?
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There are several reasons to believe that the Premier League’s ascension to the highest echelon will be far more dangerous for the overall health of global soccer, writes.
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With Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives, the bad old days of debt ceiling brinkmanship are here again.
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You may have noticed how quickly gas stoves became a political fault line this month. The commotion all misses the point: Even a ban on gas stoves (which is not actually happening) wouldn’t result in existing devices being ripped from the walls.
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There is nothing particularly sacrosanct about the Senate’s blue slip. It is not some divinely inspired wisdom that was revealed to the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia, writes.
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What are we to make of videos of violence against Black Americans by law enforcement? Is it possible that the imagery is perpetuating the violence cameras are supposed to disrupt?
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Qualified immunity, which shields officers from civil liability, has been one of the biggest sticking points between police reform negotiators. Can Congress get unstuck when it comes to police reform?
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Arms manufacturers already produce electric vehicle components. Defense cuts could be paired with a transition plan to power a climate-friendly economy, writes.
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Arizona’s new Democratic governor Katie Hobbs is setting a moderate tone for her early days in office, but trouble is already brewing with the state GOP, writes Marisa Agha.
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On the Homeland Security Committee, Marjorie Taylor Greene will have access to highly sensitive information about domestic right-wing terrorism. Sound comforting? writes:
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For “Waco Rising” author Kevin Cook, David Koresh’s apocalyptic visions—and the brutal end he and his followers met in 1993—helped lay the groundwork for the distrust, disinformation, and denialism of the past decade.
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In David Cronenberg’s movies, bodies are canvases for artists, empty pages upon which gangsters ink their histories, and the fleshy indexes of the changing worlds in which they exist. For his son, Brandon, they’re just meat.
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“Chelsea will probably never get relegated to the second division, but spending $600 million on players in a year carries long-term risks, regardless of the clever accounting tricks that are used.”
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President Biden has tools at his disposal—a parliamentary trick, a platinum coin—to help him keep his promise not to negotiate over the debt limit and keep the world spinning forward, writes.
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U.S. mental health so depends on Black death that the 2015 murder of Jeremy Mardis, a white six-year-old, didn’t rouse American consciousness into fierce protest, unlike the murders of Tamir Rice or Emmett Till, writes.
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What’s actually being done, or what’s being proposed, to regulate gas stoves right now?
There has never been a universally accepted perfect moment to launch a presidential campaign, writes.
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For “the Squad,” the transition to a GOP majority may come with a sharp learning curve but also an opportunity: To present a united front against Republicans and coalesce more Democrats under progressive ideals, writes.
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Are Trump’s celebrated ties with the evangelical community a thing of the past?
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What, you didn’t know the U.S. defense establishment is captive to the far left? Pay attention! writes:
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White people tend not to see their existence as antagonistic to the U.S., so when they’re affected by police violence, their experience can be appraised as individual strife, writes.
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North America as a continent—led by the U.S.—produces over four times the emissions of Latin America and almost 10 times the emissions of South and Southeast Asia. But the poor in the U.S. aren’t emitting anywhere near as much as the rich.
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Trump famously rode hundreds of millions of dollars in free media to the White House in 2016—could he do it again in 2024?
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When the pandemic hit, soccer leagues in Europe were ravaged. The Premier League took a hit but was able to emerge more or less unscathed. Now, Italian soccer is in shambles while La Liga remains profoundly top-heavy.
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The Republican Party is ensuring that the never-ending game of drug whack-a-mole continues.
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We did not lurch toward doomsday this week. But there’s a palpable sense of déjà vu as we tee up what might be this year’s most loaded question for the Biden administration: Will the president keep his vow not to negotiate over the debt limit?
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Peggy Noonan complains that George Santos has “stolen from voters … a sense of what’s true.” That’s rather rich coming from someone who touts the party that lied the nation into a destructive war, writes .
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Is there really such a thing as a guilt-free Hummer?
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At what point do we rethink the cost Black Americans pay to be the stimulus for consciousness in white people?
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For what it’s worth, Republicans have seemed a little knocked back by the White House’s steadfastness in refusing to negotiate over the debt ceiling.
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