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A visit to a poet's home in Kraków recalls the lessons of East Europe's dissidents.

The Department of Education's abandonment of traditional civil-rights litigation has effectively transported parents back in time, to the era before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

How the rise of "prop" bets helped create the conditions for the N.B.A.'s latest gambling scandal.

Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.

A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?

She has been cast in maternal roles since her teens. Now, playing a mother for the first time since becoming one, she has chosen the part of a woman pushed past the edge of sanity.

Donald Trump's grant of clemency to the founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, shows how the checks on Presidential power are failing.

Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits--how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

His posts and rants are omnipresent, ugly, and unhinged. Don't look to history to make it make sense.

The writer took on the trial of Lord Haw-Haw, a British Fascist who became a mouthpiece for the Nazis, and who prefigured the reactionary toadyism of our own era.