Politics

College towns without college students have small businesses struggling

Middlebury, Vermont, is one of many small towns where businesses are dependent on college students. | John Greim/LightRocket via Getty…

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Robert Mueller: Roger Stone “remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.”

Former special counsel Robert Mueller prepares to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in July 2019. | Salwan Georges/The Washington…

4 years ago

The Goya Foods free speech controversy, explained

Goya rice being packed for distribution at the company’s Secaucus, New Jersey, factory in 2013. | Yana Paskova/The Washington Post/Getty…

4 years ago

My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes.

Medical staff from myCovidMD provide free Covid-19 antibody testing in Inglewood, California, on June 19, 2020. The unknowns of immune…

4 years ago

Why did liberals win so many cases before a conservative Supreme Court?

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan with conservatives Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch, on February 5, 2019. | Doug…

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“Usually, trans women are side characters”

Eve Lindley plays Simone in Dispatches from Elsewhere. She is one of the few trans actors to ever play a…

4 years ago

Trump just commuted Roger Stone’s sentence

Roger Stone leaves federal court on November 15, 2019, after being found guilty for obstructing a congressional investigation into Russian…

4 years ago

Amazon walks back its order for employees to delete TikTok from their phones

Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images Employees can use the social media app on their phones, after all. Amazon says its…

4 years ago

Unpacking the twisty genre of political fanfiction through Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham

Hillary Rodham Clinton during her senior year at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1969. | Wellesley College/Sygma via Getty Images Why…

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Housing segregation left Black Americans more vulnerable to Covid-19

Housing discrimination dating back to the 1940s put Black Americans more at risk of contracting and dying from the Covid-19…

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