[ad_1] Culture / Books & the Arts / September 5, 2024 The radical anthropologist offered not only incisive studies of the state but also a vision of what life looked like beyond it. Ad Policy A screenshot from a 2011 interview with James C. Scott.(Yale University) With little charity but unerring accuracy, the anthropologist Eric […]

[ad_1] Activism / StudentNation / September 5, 2024 The school’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment ended in just five days. But the path to divestment began before the encampment—and stretches far beyond. Ad Policy People organize a pro-Palestinian protest outside Trinity College Dublin. (Mostafa Darwish / Getty) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the […]

[ad_1] Taylor Swift arrives at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday night in Elmont, N.Y., a day after the singer-songwriter endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has declared himself very much not a Swiftie. Days after Taylor Swift endorsed […]

[ad_1] Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, arrives at Harry Reid International Airport to board a plane after a campaign trip on Saturday in Las Vegas. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP The U.S. Secret Service is responding to a shooting near former President Donald Trump who was at his golf course […]

[ad_1] Lisa Zornberg, New York City Hall’s chief counsel, speaks during a mayoral news conference at City Hall, in New York, Nov. 14, 2023. Richard Drew/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Drew/AP NEW YORK — The top legal adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned abruptly over the weekend, the latest sign of […]

[ad_1] Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) speaks to reporters before he departs Pitt-Greenville Airport following a campaign event in Greenville, N.C. on Saturday. Steve Helber/AP hide caption toggle caption Steve Helber/AP Sen. JD Vance stood by his false claim that Haitian migrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio — an unsupported story […]

[ad_1] On March 23, 2023, former president Donald Trump launched his third presidential bid in front of a raucous, rollicking crowd in Waco, Texas. Waco, a city of about 145,000 people in east Texas, situated halfway between Dallas and Austin, was the scene 30 years earlier of a bloody showdown between federal and state law […]

[ad_1] Politics / September 5, 2024 Trump still hasn’t figured out how to run against Kamala Harris, and that’s helping Harris to secure states where Biden was in trouble. Ad Policy Former US president Donald Trump during a campaign event at Alro Steel in Potterville, Michigan, on August 29, 2024. (Photographer: Emily Elconin / Bloomberg) […]

[ad_1] Politics / September 5, 2024 Donald Trump wanted a political heir. Instead, he got an anchor dragging him down. Ad Policy JD Vance shops for donuts at Holt’s Sweet Shop in Valdosta, Georgia.(Gary McCullough / AP) The ability to gracefully eat fast food in public is an essential political talent. Bill Clinton’s legendary love […]

[ad_1] Vice President Harris boards Air Force Two in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Sept. 9, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP If Vice President Harris wins in November, she would make history as the first female president and the first woman of color to hold the highest office in the land. But Harris’ […]