For centuries, Western countries have used the extension of economic support to justify the imposition of control over poorer countries.

Republican leaders need to speak up now, loudly and clearly, against any schemes to put Donald Trump back into the White House yet again. Related: the agenda behind the 3rd term threat

State and city elections are now heavily intertwined with what happens in Washington.

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Chapter 1: In challenging British rule, Thomas Jefferson would face the contradiction between enslavement and “all men are created equal.”

In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her Trump-voting hometown to find out how America got so divided.

Episode 1: And So It Begins. President Trump is compelling universities across the country to adopt a more conservative agenda in exchange for access to federal funds. Episode 2: The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main characters, inside Harvard, tell the story from their perspective: politics professor Ryan Enos, genetics professor

Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studied this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.

It’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots.

DM Good morning! What do you consider to be the differences, and demarcations of, and between: apathy, indifference, ambivalence, disinterest, inattention and overt absence of curiosity? Good morning! What a wonderfully nuanced question. These terms dance around each other in interesting ways, and understanding their distinctions requires us to look at both what's happening emotionally and what's happening cognitively in each state. Let me walk you through these one by one, a

Here’s a breakdown of what the CFA does, who was on the board, and what happens next.

How do you protect a right that was never designed for everyone? For Hannah Fried, this isn’t abstract. It’s the daily work of making sure ordinary people can do an extraordinary thing: cast a ballot and have it count.

The tech company’s C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war.

Journalism and fiction are both essential to a thriving democracy.

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers. Somewhat related? Distantly related Hopefully distantly related More about that And then there's the money aspect

Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.

The senator from Connecticut once looked like the future of Democratic politics. These days, he worries about whether democracy has a future.

This year, for the first time in nearly a century, more foreign-born people will likely leave the United States than will enter.

Twenty-seven minutes with the latest governor Donald Trump wants arrested

After years of whiplash over diversity policies, businesses remain caught between conflicting regulatory requirements, frustrated consumers and their employees.