The Year in Sound: An Audio Time Capsule of 2018
Between the government shutdowns that bookended the year, there were furious standoffs over a border wall; shootings…
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The Latest Showdown Over a Shutdown
President Trump seemed poised to avoid a government shutdown and to carry his fight for a border wall into 2019, when…
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Senator Claire McCaskill on Losing Missouri and the Politics of Purity
If any Democratic senator representing a red state was going to survive the midterm elections and continue serving in…
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The Ethics of Genetically Editing Babies
Ever since scientists created the powerful gene-editing technique Crispr, they have braced for the day when it would…
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A Year in the Russia Investigation
At the start of 2018, the biggest threat to the Trump presidency was an investigation into his campaign’s ties to…
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‘The Most Significant Campaign Contributions’ in U.S. History
It was never clear what motivated Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, to hand the investigation of Michael…
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Undocumented and Working for Trump
Last week, Victorina Morales came forward and said that for the last five years, she had been working as an undocumented…
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The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, and How U.S. Law Enforcement Ignored It
Despite repeated warnings over the past two decades, federal law enforcement officials in the United States have ignored…
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