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And all of the ignition points that humans brought in—power lines, heavy equipment, cars, cigarette butts—started more fires than the land was adapted to handle. Southern California’s chaparral needs ...

In pushing back against Trump’s attack on a federal judge, Roberts neglected to mention the substantive dispute of the case.

Donald Trump’s allies have pivoted from denying that his tariffs will hurt consumers to insisting that consumers should ...

The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s sharp-witted novel Theory & Practice, a Sri Lankan–born grad student at a university in Melbourne, has a similar, self-flagellating feeling early in the book. She ...

Russia and China are surely thrilled by the president’s decision to close Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, ...

Forever 21 opened in my hometown when I was in middle school, when the opening of a new store at the mall was still a big ...

For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and scarcity. Liberals can stand for abundance.

On Friday, President Donald Trump delivered an unusual speech at the Justice Department. Between fulminating against his ...

For Hamas, the conflict will not end until Israel is gone. For Israel, the conflict cannot end until Hamas is gone. Which ...

Down through the ages, one thing united these mass-produced forms of pornography: the understanding that no matter how ...

Less than a month into the second Trump administration, the White House began publicly toying with the idea of defying court ...