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When David Lynch died last week, it was almost hard to know whom exactly to mourn. He was a Renaissance man: musician, ...

The new president needs the tech industry more than it needs him.

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At Trump’s last rally before returning to the White House, an ecstatic audience anticipated a historic presidency.

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His second inaugural address promised a “golden age,” but the ideas in it evoked the late 1800s more than any recent ...

On the day of Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, a group of his top billionaire donors, including the casino magnate Miriam Adelson and the future Republican National Committee finance chair Todd ...

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As far as policy accomplishments are concerned, it could very well turn out to be as underwhelming as the first.

After the January 6 attacks, right-wing militias went underground. Now they have permission to come out of hiding.

Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against ...