By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.

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Church intervention in electoral races is an efficient polarization machine.

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To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.

As the Jeffrey Epstein case shows, right-wing internet personalities prefer “just asking questions” to getting answers.

At a perilous American moment, the Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains why he wanted to read The Turner Diaries.

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