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Nominations belong to parties, not to candidates.
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An emerging Axis of Resistance confronts the Liberal Alliance.
Illustration by Tyler Comrie The U.S. Should Apologize to Gay People
For decades, the government led a campaign to erase them from public life. A reckoning is long past due.
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We were neighbors when I was growing up in Phoenix, Arizona. She was always the adult I looked up to.
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The former vice president might be the GOP’s best bet to move past Trump and win in 2024.
Scott Olson / Getty The Real Obstacle to Nuclear Power
It’s not environmentalists—it’s the nuclear-power industry itself.
Brian Finke for The Atlantic Trump’s Second Term Would Look Like This
The former president and his allies have explained their plans quite clearly.
Mark Felix / AFP / Getty Plan Z for Immigration
Let the states sort it out.
Paul Spella The 5 Trump Amendments to the Constitution
The 45th president profoundly altered our system of government.
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