America Is Divided. It Makes for Tremendous Content.
Jubilee Media mines the nation’s deepest disagreements for rowdy viral videos. But is all the arguing changing anyone’s mind?
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Stefan Wermuth / Bloomberg / Getty Trump’s First Shot in His War on the ‘Deep State’
The president is punishing a group of former officials for expressing an opinion he didn’t like.
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A higher dose of an emergency-contraception drug may open a back door for Americans seeking abortions in restrictive states.
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Sam Altman has once again put himself in a position of power—this time by sidling up to President Trump.
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Some of the president’s policies are literally stranger than fiction.
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Other than raw ambition, only one through line is perceptible in a switchbacking political career.
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Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against disease.
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As far as policy accomplishments are concerned, it could very well turn out to be as underwhelming as the first.
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Does the text mean what it plainly says?
Emperor Trump’s New Map
The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.
The True Story of the Married Woman Who Smuggled Her Boyfriend Out of Prison in a Dog Crate
She wanted to escape her marriage. He wanted to escape his life sentence. (From 2020)
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“The Dred Scott case of 1857 is the most famous — or notorious — in all of our judicial history.” (From 1957)
An Odyssey of the North
“Where did he come from? And what was he doing there? And why did he come from there? Another mystery of the north, Prince, for you to solve.” (From 1900)
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Some of those who have fought for their family members to be released have mixed feelings about the sweeping nature of the president’s action.
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How do we overcome the awkwardness that keeps us from starting a conversation?
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