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Democrats and Republicans are in a race to the bottom--and the worst consequences will extend far beyond next month's midterms.

The comedy-podcast boom is changing our idea of what it means to be funny.

The President's self-dealing has been well documented. Do voters care--and will anyone ever pay?

From the daily newsletter: Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times in Mississippi by the same white prosecutor for a crime he did not commit, was the subject of the In the Dark podcast.

He was found dead in his home at age fifty-six.

A measure to tax the ultra-wealthy in California is a bellwether progressive issue. Why are so many Democrats skeptical?

Canadians think America "is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again," Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they're seeking allies abroad.

The investigative podcast In the Dark examines why Curtis Flowers, a Black man in Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime, revealing a town divided by race and a conviction supported by questionable evidence.

A growing movement has mobilized France's youth against diminished school conditions and accumulating problems--and provided, for its detractors, a pretext for blaming the country's ills on febrile adolescents.

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