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 If the United States, the principal architect of the post-war order, abandons those principles, others will follow suit.

In his final act, the liberal stalwart wants to save his party from ideologues.

(Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)DONALD TRUMP ON MONDAY hosted a forty-minute Oval Office event focusing on maternal health, and mostly it got attention because he seemed to nod off in the middle of it.But the president and his invited guests also got some news coverage for the intended message, which was about a series of initiatives like reducing the cost of some fertility drugs, and launching an informational website called Moms.gov. These are supposed to demonstrate, as one attendee put

Lessons from the first graduating A.I. class.

I noticed that a lot of TV villains come from the town I grew up in. I wasn’t surprised.

5/17/1954: Brown v. Board of Education and Bolling v. Sharpe are decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 17, 1954 appeared first on Reason.com.

Cakeism, impatience and low-quality public discourse contribute to the UK’s instability

Why ‘principled accommodation’ provides a better way to disagree.

Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins John Avlon to lay out a new “patriotic center” for Democrats—from taxing social media companies to fund education, to rebuilding America, fixing housing, confronting China, regulating AI deepfakes, and reclaiming patriotism from Trumpism. They also debate school closures, social media addiction, AI’s impact on democracy, and why Democrats need a more aggressive economic message heading into 2028.Tickets for our Bulwark Live shows in San

For this to happen, however, both men would need personality transplants.

Defeating a sclerotic rump of a party is no achievement. Instead, one-party rule enables corruption. It fosters stagnation.

In March, longtime Senior Editor Brian Doherty died in a hiking accident. He was 57. To celebrate his life, this month's archives are excerpts from his 30 years of work at Reason. 3 years ago March 2023 "In the post–Donald Trump GOP, support for the Iraq War has largely become anathema. Yet the U.S. has still not fully internalized that war's lessons. The Iraq debacle should have taught the U.S. it can never again scare itself into war based on guesses about how sinister some enemy is or will be

One of the oldest and most durable features of human experience is re-emerging.

The decline of civic education hit bottom about a decade ago and is at last on the rebound. This fact brings me hope.

Growing up in Gwynedd, I was made to feel ‘not Welsh enough’. But things have changed – and the Senedd victory shows the politics of exclusion has no answerPlaid Cymru and its leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, made political history this month: they won the Senedd. For the first time ever, Wales now has a progressive majority that is not dependent on Labour. Polls had put Plaid and Reform UK neck and neck. In the run-up to the election, some of my Welsh friends were panicking. They were relieved that Re

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Religious pluralism has long been a hallmark of cities and towns across America.

Plummeting approval ratings for these three poisonous comrades-in-arms show voters are demoralised and tiring of forever wars – the west could soon breathe againFeeling depressed about the state of the world? Worried about the future? You’re not alone. Pessimism about politics is the new normal among the peoples of the west. Major conflicts in Europe and the Middle East and the harms caused by right-left extremism, stagnating economies, inequality, corruption, terrorism, racism, big tech, mass e

A new collection of photographs gives us a new picture of the Holocaust in France.

We are witnessing the fracturing of the traditional party system that glues our society together