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It's difficult to measure what is lost when an opinion is never voiced and impossible to catalogue the arguments that never form because a speaker calculates the risk and decides silence is safer.

The 'equal time' rule has been around for a century and aims to promote broadcasters' editorial independence and free expression - an idea that is now under threat from the FCC.

Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to achieve.

The expiration of the New START treaty has the US and Russia poised to increase the number of their deployed strategic nuclear weapons, pushing the world into dangerous territory.

In 1970, National Guard troops killed four protesters at Kent State University. In 2026, federal agents killed two Minneapolis protesters. Public reaction to the deaths was significantly different.

The coalitions that Jackson built during his presidential campaigns created enduring infrastructure for later progressives, particularly in Vermont.

The law is on Trump's side, in most cases, when his administration names things after him. But citizens still have the right to protest.

As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for metaphors.