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The Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, led by an unelected billionaire and supported by the Donald Trump administration, continues its bulldozer approach to our federal government.

As we careen forward, an ...Read more

Evenings in our house oscillate between routine and existential. I prefer the ones where we mostly muddle through the mundane, and the ever-present threat to health and to normalcy goes largely unobserved, acknowledged ...Read more

This month marked the end of my 16-year career with the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. Like thousands of other federal workers, I was dismissed without warning or ...Read more

Count me in the ranks of those who have quit Tesla.

Three years ago my wife and I bought a Model Y, Tesla’s small SUV. I was particularly intrigued by a car that ran on electricity, not gas. Living in Fresno, California...Read more

One of my favorite stories is "The Butterfly and the Tank," a powerful novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway. First published in Esquire magazine in November 1938, the piece is based on Hemingway�...Read more

The world found out shortly after noon eastern time on March 24 that the United States’ March 15 bombing of Houthi targets across Yemen had been discussed just before it happened on the private messaging platform Signal ...Read more

Freedom of speech. Due process under the law.

They sound good, don’t they?

They’re the twin pillars of a free society and a free university. And they’re both under assault from President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

Washington is aflutter with the latest Trump “gotcha,” this one involving the revelation that White House officials mistakenly included a journalist on a group chat about potential American airstrikes against rebels in...Read more

The Defense Department has been roiled by the Donald Trump administration’s desire to root out diversity, equity and inclusion programs his administration believes are divisive and unfair. This has manifested itself in ...Read more

Imagine you’re a senior manager for a company. You and other members of your corporate braintrust, working in different locations, hop on a group text to discuss strategic plans relating to your chief competitor, but you...Read more

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order laying out a plan for dismantling the federal Department of Education represents good news for families nationwide. As the mother of a child with special needs and a former...Read more

Everyone involved in the nation’s defense — from the newly enlisted up to and including the military’s top brass — should be incensed that members of the Trump administration carelessly discussed pending operations...Read more

The country should thank The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeff Goldberg, for showing that the entire top echelon of the Trump administration was reckless and careless in discussing secret classified military matters on ...Read more

Gavin Newsom has a new political podcast, in case you hadn't heard, and he's not the only one who's talking.

California's gallivanting governor has made national headlines and stirred no small amount of discussion among ...Read more

Amid the Trump administration’s assault on higher education and academic freedom — shaking down institutions like Columbia, targeting pro-Palestinian scholars and students for deportation and dispatching chilling ...Read more

There could not be a worse time to implement a required national service for young people.

In a nation that has turned individual freedom into a fetish, such an idea would always be a hard sell. Now, with an autocratic ...Read more

As someone who firmly believes in libertarian/conservative values and principles, I fully understand that compulsory national service could seem like an infringement upon one’s personal freedom. However, I still think it...Read more

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is under fire from progressives for not having a clear plan to fight President Donald Trump. He certainly deserves some criticism — but for an entirely different reason: He doesn’t ...Read more

The news came via email, without further explanation, from Ian Simon, the head of the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice. The email, obtained by Politico, says this:

"We are writing to let you know that the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s expansive executive order on elections Tuesday attempts to take control of voter citizenship verification, absentee ballot deadlines and voting technology, but its immediate impact in Georgia ...Read more