The Supreme Court of the United States did a grave disservice to both the Constitution and the nation in Trump v. Anderson. In a stunning disfigurement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court impressed
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In the late nineteen-nineties, a neuroscientist named Mark Blumberg stood in a lab at the University of Iowa watching a litter of sleeping rats. Blumberg was then on the cusp of forty; the rats were n
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A few months before the midterms, with pollsters spewing red wave predictions and post- Roe conservatives planning to force raped children to give birth, a bit of political news added to progressives’
In the winter of 2005, Elizabeth Hargrave, a health policy analyst, took a ski trip with a group of friends from her church. The problem was, she said, she grew up in Florida, “and I don’t actually en
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A cautionary tutorial. Let’s make a sentiment classifier! Sentiment analysis is a very frequently-implemented task in NLP , and it’s no surprise. Recognizing whether people are expressing positive or
The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experi
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“A Human Stain” by Kelly Robson is a disturbing horror novelette about a British expatriate at loose ends who is hired by her friend to temporarily care for his young, orphaned nephew in a remote cast
Two months after Donald Trump’s Inauguration, the White House took a sudden interest in a civil servant named Sahar Nowrouzzadeh. At thirty-four, she was largely unknown outside a small community of n
The Feeling Of Power Isaac Asimov Jehan Shuman was used to dealing with the men in authority onlong-embattled earth. He was only a civilian but he originated programmingpatterns that resulted in self-
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On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the campaign headquarters had remained a listless place.
Ali Zaidi was five years old when his parents moved him from Pakistan to the United States, in 1993. Later he’d marvel at American parents who agonized over the trauma that some trivial relocation—say
The former House speaker feels liberated—but he’s also seething about what happened to his party. Former House Speaker John Boehner tinkers with his lawn mower.| Mark Peterson/Redux Pictures for Polit
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The most important book ever written on presidential impeachment is only 69 pages long. Charles Black, Jr.,’s Impeachment: A Handbook was published in the summer of 1974, at the height of the Watergat
On Wednesday Fox News announced that it would sever ties with Bill O’Reilly in response to multiple charges of sexual harassment and the retreat of a number of sponsors from "The O’Reilly Factor." Wit
The real-estate market in any sophisticated city reflects deep aspirations and fears. If you had a feel for its ups and downs—if you understood, say, why young parents were picking this neighborhood a
Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics. Then He Shaped an Election. James B. Comey. WASHINGTON — The day before he upended the 2016 election, James B. Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau
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Photo illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast The big New York Times scoop that Donald Trump used $916 million of tax losses to enjoy many income tax-free years raised a question the newspaper
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History will note that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death-metal band and worked in a planetary sc
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