How DOGE is driving America’s public-health guardians mad

ON A NARROW road on the main campus of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, lie...

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DOGE shutters the government’s in-house tech consultancy

Over the next month or so, many Americans filing their tax returns have a new option. Instead of paying an accountant, or buy...

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Democrats are struggling to respond to Trump

EVERY DAY, President Donald Trump gives fresh reasons for Democrats to rue their election loss in 2024. The failures of Joe B...

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Donald Trump deploys new tactics to manage the media

“Why don’t you wear a suit?…Do you own a suit?” The first question from the White House press pool to Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukr...

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Three principles are at play in the cases concerning DOGE

AT A HEARING on February 28th in one of two dozen lawsuits targeting DOGE (Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency...

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The women vying to make conservatism fashionable online

ANYTHING CAN look good with the right lighting. An influencer touches up her makeup while decrying the “radicalism of the lef...

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Donald Trump’s Washington reaches a new partisan peak

“The next president of the United States will only be the president of a party,” Thomas Jefferson predicted as George Washing...

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Andrew Cuomo plots a comeback in New York

Political disgrace isn’t as constraining as it used to be. Andrew Cuomo, whose public career was thought to be dead just thre...

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Andrew Cuomo plots a comeback in New York City

Political disgrace isn’t as constraining as it used to be. Andrew Cuomo, whose public career was thought to be dead just thre...

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Trump’s armed forces won’t look like Biden’s

DONALD TRUMP, seeing “a big, beautiful Ocean” between his country and the world’s problems, wants to curtail America’s respon...

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