Mnuchin Meets Saudi Crown Prince in Riyadh Amid Controversy Over Khashoggi Death
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Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at the hands of the government of Saudi Arabia provoked America’s normally studiously neutral journalists into an uncommon posture of agitation and straight-talk. So did the related matters of Donald Trump’s incredible credulity about the Saudi government’s…
“Hidden Tribes,” the new report centrists are using to explain away polarization, explained
To most political observers, it seems obvious that political polarization is on the rise. The parties are becoming more hardline and their bases more ideologically unified. Partisan affiliation is now more important than ever in shaping the way Americans think…
Trump’s approval rating is going up — but voters still want Democrats to take Congress
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has improved with Americans — but voters still want Democrats to win in the 2018 midterm elections. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released over the weekend found that 50 percent of likely voters want…
Trump’s anti-trans proposal may increase prejudice. Here’s one way to combat it.
Though they are often conflated by many Americans, and particularly Republicans, sex is not the same thing as gender. Sex is determined by the biological configuration of chromosomes. Gender is our individual identity: one that can be fluid or fixed.…
Kehinde Wiley on Painting President Obama, Michael Jackson, and the People of Ferguson |
In February of this year, the artist Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Barack Obama was unveiled in Washington, D.C. The painting is at once simple and—especially when compared to most other Presidential portraits—radical: Obama, his skin glowing as if lit from…
