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This New Immigration Bill That’s About to Pass Is a Horrifying Trojan Horse

If Democrats cannot recover their nerve and stand up to this extremism, they will be complicit in the devastating consequences of its passage.

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Sam Alito Failing To Recuse From This Trump Case Would Be a Historic Farce

It makes a mockery of the so-called ethics rules that they put in place, but that there's no mechanism to enforce.

Think the TikTok Ban Won’t Happen? Think Again.

This isn’t the first time regulators have targeted a Chinese-owned company.

I Will Never Stop Watching One Video From Jimmy Carter’s Funeral, and Neither Will You

The video of Obama and George W. Bush is Carter’s last gift to the world.

You Know Who Else Blamed a Major Fire on a Global Conspiracy of His Political Enemies?

The president-elect’s top adviser is trumpeting a wild conspiracy about Los Angeles.

Netflix’s Latest Smash Is a Hit in 89 Countries. It Shows How the Streamer Has Mastered a New Formula.

Netflix has created a new global addiction. Missing You is a perfect example.

There Was One Sign That We Had to Leave L.A. We Never Thought We’d See It.

The city's gargantuan highways—normally an impediment and an eyesore—suddenly felt like a bulwark.