It is a difficult juggling act to be both a soccer fan and social critic. After tournaments start, it becomes even harder.
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Each generation of Americans has confronted its own version of constitutional peril.
Three new federal polls since Monday produce a mixed bag of results for One Nation, but all good news for the government.
The reflecting pool builds on a landscaping tradition of organising nature into orderly lines and geometric shapes. Nature did not always play along.
Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to surrender to despair.
The rest of the world has had to learn how to manage the US president’s mercurial temperament and unique style.
Fifty years of data from the US suggests that consumer confidence is reflected in an administration’s performance in elections.
It’s showtime! …Erecting a mixed martials arts arena at the White House and hinting that it might just become a permanent fixture is a nod to power that draws on force and spectacle.
Instead of bringing people together, the World Cup is in danger of being remembered for the climate of exclusion and fear generated by one of its host nations.
Anthony Albanese’s net approval slumped seven points to -24, a record low below his previous record low -21 in February 2025.
Democrats tend to give less than Republicans when it comes to earmarked funding for universities – but they give more to minority-serving institutions.
Some states are trying to challenge a long-held precedent that undocumented children are allowed to attend public school free of charge.
With spectacle, personality clashes and corruption increasingly defining American politics, it was only a matter of time before TMZ would set its sights on the Beltway.
Incumbents in Kentucky and Texas who opposed Trump have been ousted and loyalist candidates will run instead.
The 2026 World Cup is likely to reveal a deep ethical poverty at the heart of ‘the world game’ thanks to two leaders who have much in common.
Forty-five years apart, two assassination attempts on American Presidents rather uncannily happened at the very same location. This case of history repeating itself offers much food for thought.
Trump’s net approval is below what any past president since Harry Truman had at this point in their term.
Most Trump supporters remain in his camp, but some independents, young people and Black Americans who voted for the president in 2024 would not do so again in an election do-over.
Democracy cannot thrive, or even survive, when its leaders see themselves as godlike and divide citizens into believers and heretics, a scholar writes.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson, two of the Maga movement’s most prominent figures, have broken with Trump in recent months.
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