Opinion | You Can’t Defend a Nation When Soldiers Don’t Have Child Care

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Whether you hate Catholics or love us, you have to admit, when the Pope speaks, the world listens. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Meme Wars Trump has decimated the norms of diplomatic communication, and other countries have followed suit.

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WSJ Iran wants Hormuz tolls in crypto to avoid sanctions or tracking

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"American Steel, into the spine."

Opinion | Why the Middle Class Feels Poor With the Great Decompression, incomes rise for everyone but much faster for the affluent.

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This Is the Hidden Killer Of Remote Work Productivity, It Starts With Jira I know what’s hindering your productivity. It’s your productivity.

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Opinion | Anthropic’s Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign

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Deportation in the Trump Era Is All About Location If you’re an undocumented immigrant, where you live often determines your future.

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Deportation in the Trump Era Is All About Location
If you’re an undocumented immigrant, where you live often determines your future.

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The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote

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The College Student—and His Cat Meme—Who Hunted the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. Benjamin Brundage had a few tricks to help solve the mystery.

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A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled.

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Live Updates: NASA Artemis II Moon Mission Launches Atop Tower of Flame

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U.A.E. Is Revoking Visas, Stranding Iranian Residents Abroad in a Widening Crackdown Ties that date back centuries are under heavy strain from Iran’s bombardments during the war.

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Hegseth’s Culture Wars Are Inviting a Military Disaster Fifty years ago, a British psychologist famously laid bare the character defects behind some of the UK’s biggest wartime fiascos. The Secretary of Defense’s plans for the Pentagon check every box.

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Hegseth’s Culture Wars Are Inviting a Military Disaster

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WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

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Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Paintings Are Stolen in 3-Minute Museum Heist, Police Say

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If more wives choked on it like Duke did the divorce rate would go down tremendously.

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Empires Have Battled Over the Strait of Hormuz for Centuries Greeks, Ottomans and Portuguese all sought to control the Persian waterway, whose shores were once dubbed the Pirate Coast.

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Essay | Jews Begin to Wonder: Is Anywhere Safe? “It feels like the 1930s again.” Hostility against Jews surges in Western countries where they felt safe in recent decades.

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OnlyFans Owner Leo Radvinsky Dies at 43 The reclusive executive built the subscription service into an adult-content powerhouse.

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A viral fake of a MAGA female Army service member spotlights a new trend in online attention harvesting: part patriotism, part porn and 100 percent computer-made.

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Iran Brings Europe Into Range With Missiles Fired at Diego Garcia Its attack on the base 2,500 miles away broke its own stated limit on missiles and signaled a more-aggressive military posture for the regime

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Europe is now in range of Iranian missiles.

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Not So Fast, Bill Maher The comedian was set to receive the Twain Prize before a sudden reversal of course.

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Who controls the Kennedy, I mean tRump Center?

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The Quiet American: How Pope Leo Is Pushing Back Against Trump Can the low-key pontiff from Chicago make a difference in an era of raw power politics?

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How America’s War on Iran Backfired Seventeen years ago, while serving as an Iran desk officer in the U.S. State Department, I asked a more veteran colleague about the latest inflammatory statement by Mahmood Ahmadinejad, then the Irani...

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Tehran Will Now Set the Terms for Peace
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Trump's choice of doubling down or ending the war with concession from Israel Iran can frame as a triumph

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