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If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.

Senate Republicans have confirmed Trump’s least qualified Cabinet nominees—and given up their role as an independent check on the president.

In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.

America’s education system is in trouble, but neither Republicans nor Democrats are up for the challenge of enforcing change.

Reading, puzzles, and physical activity strengthen the mind in different ways.

The U.S. journalist is in prison because Vladimir Putin has made no pretense about using Americans as human bargaining chips.