In the muggy summer of 1776, 56 men met in Philadelphia and pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to America’s ...

I wondered what Trump's second administration would be and how to describe it. I thought authoritarian for sure, plutocracy as well, with oligarchs, yes. But I believe the best description of MAGA ...

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Constitutional Appeal: Five petitioners urge CJI B R Gavai to set a deadline for restoring J&K's statehood and prevent future state demotions.

Balancing the letters In response to Rosemary Patterson and others who have grown weary of Mr. Ott’s too frequent rants, I’d like to defend the Weekly. They can’t print letters they don’t get. I, for ...

Zohran Mamdani ran a brilliant campaign that inspired a huge turnout, especially among young voters. The thirty-three-year-old Mamdani, a state assembly member from Queens and a democratic socialist, ...

The morning of April 20, the Colorado National Guard, called in at Rockefeller’s behest, opened fire from a machine gun set up on a hill above the strikers’ homes, then rushed in to burn down the ...