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The Trump administration’s partisan takeover of the United States’ international broadcasters failed. What’s to prevent a future administration from trying again?

The Democrats’ Last Chance to Save Democracy Expand the Court now. Link Copied Supporters of Donald Trump assaulted the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but American democracy has been under siege for far longer—from both former President Trump and the Republican Party. Trump’s transgressions against democracy are well known: They include having attacked the press as the “enemy of the people,” assailed sitting judges, politicized the Justice Department and the intelligence agencies, undermined transparency in government, encouraged political violence, and delegitimized elections. The Rep...

Ken Dryden Ken Dryden was a goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s, during which time the team won six Stanley Cups. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame; was a Member of the Canadian Parliament; and is the author of several books.

How to Launch the Next Great Era of Black Prosperity Historically black colleges are the institution best positioned to deliver greater racial equality throughout America. They just need support. Left: Students on campus at Howard University in 1946; Right: A class at Spelman College in 2018 Left: Alfred Eisenstaedt / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty; Right: Melissa Golden / Redux Link Copied Even today, in this time of racial awakening, many white Americans continue to ask the same demeaning question about historically Black colleges and uni...

Link Copied This is a story about the nadir, the end of days. Monday, March 24, 2008, marked five years to the month after the British army arrived in Iraq, preaching to the Americans their apparent expertise in counterinsurgency operations and understanding of the manifold ways of, in the historical British upper-class vernacular, “the Arab.” This is the story of how that complacency—the claimed legacy of imperial policing and Belfast; of Greece-to-your-Rome and barely disguised Anglo-American contempt—became apparent. The British army committed that bafflingly common 21st-century fa...