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Trump at the correspondents’ dinner

The White House Correspondents' Dinner is usually a predictable affair. Journalists and celebrities gather to reinforce their credentials as powerful insiders who should be the ones running the country. This year's dinner, to be held tonight in Washington, is likely to be something quite ...

The mixed messages or dog whistles from Trump

When President Donald Trump says he "may do" something, it also means he "may not" do something. He covers all his bases so no one can be surprised. Trump realizes that people will believe what they want to believe. Because of that fact, Trump gives messages that some people can embrace and ...

Keep artificial intelligence out of American classrooms

Norway is, by almost any metric, a profoundly successful nation. It's rich, democratic and relatively corruption-free. It's not a socialist country, but fans of a robust welfare state and high taxes see much to admire in the very progressive Norwegian model. It also benefits from having the ...

The 10 most important ways to resist now (revised, updated, expanded)

In light of Trump's increasingly cruel and bonkers behavior — toward Iran, toward the pope, his posts, his bottomless vengeance, his continuing ICE raids, his continuing use of the Justice Department to target his enemies, his shameless corruption — many of you want to know: "What can I do ...

What has passed is not always what was best

Your memories will try to trick you. I thought about that as I was driving down a street near my house the other day, when I spotted a father walking down the sidewalk, his young daughter slung over his shoulder like a sack of coal he was hauling out of a mine. Her hair bounced along on his ...

Trump, the pope and the gospel of ‘Pulp Fiction’

It is hardly surprising that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's explicitly Christian monthly worship services monthly in the Pentagon have raised alarm in some quarters about the separation of church and state. But who expected to find him quoting lines of alleged scripture that were lifted ...