To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts out status at risk?

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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Congressional Republicans keep wringing their hands over the White House’s legislative priorities … and then voting for them.

He—the president, their leader, the martyr who had endured scandals and prosecution and an assassin’s bullet on their ...