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In retrospect, the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration was an inopportune time for Walmart to hold the grand opening of its new corporate campus.

Donald Trump’s dangerous fixation with imperial aesthetics.

An Intercept analysis confirmed that the White House used Google AI tools to alter the photo of Minnesota activist Nekima Levy Armstrong.

With nearly 25 countries already signed on, critics fear that the new body could challenge the United Nations’ authority.

The Canadian leader’s Davos speech is a masterclass in realism—and an overdue admission of hypocrisy.

Trump’s “Board of Peace” is neither an alternative to the U. N. nor a harmless vanity project but a threat to international cooperation.

Fearmongering about “narco-terrorism” was deployed to oust Maduro. In reality, it was always about capturing Venezuela’s oil.

The U. S. president followed up a concerning speech with a confusing announcement.

Trump’s Greenland spectacle has liberal-minded Americans rooting for the other guy.

The commentariat persists in misrepresenting the U. S. president and his actions.

Economy Minister Nir Barkat: “We’ll do better business in places that want us. ”

Nearly one year on, one of the biggest U. S. defense proposals remains little more than a concept.

As paramilitaries tear through their already devastated province, self-defense fighters in North Darfur have taken up arms to defend their homes.

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.

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The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.

The science of gemstones has always been intertwined with their value as luxury items.

Universities, law firms, and news media have already been targeted by the administration. As the Justice Department pushes to investigate the Open Society Foundations, it seems that philanthropies that support critical voices may be next.

A new life of Gertrude Stein treats her as a philosopher of language to trust, not explain—and gathers force from archival discoveries and intriguing plots of her reception and reputation.

It is a problem of organization, angelsIn their syndicates look down, elitesHave always looked down on us, she said, But if everyone refuses to