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America is confronting two powerful illiberal movements. Where you stand on their relative threats depends on where you live.

Where We Stand, and Why by David French

How mistakes can open our eyes

His new documentary is designed to sow mistrust of the country’s most important institutions.

A bad analogy that reveals something important about the social justice/anti-woke debate

Be very afraid.

Many conservatives and "anti-woke" centrists have urged caution in response to sexual assault charges—until now

A dose of hope in our mailbag

A former Pennsylvania radio host with a history of antisemitic and homophobic tweets moved to Idaho last year and is now running for a school board seat — with the local Republican party’s endorsement. Among tweets posted from David J. Reilly’s account: “All Jews are dangerous” and “Judaism is the religion of the anti-Christ.” Reilly’s Twitter timeline has been scrubbed of antisemitic posts, but some screenshots live on.

I’m not much for Twitter anymore, but I still keep a client on my phone and my desktop for the times I do feel like playing with it, in case someone talks to me there and to keep tabs on what a few people are up to. One of those clients is TWBlue, obviously. A couple of days ago, the thing absolut...

Donald Trump’s latest business venture, Truth Social, is a brand-new social media platform that is going to be a publicly-traded company via a reverse merger with a SPAC. Consequently, it sits at the intersection between finance, law, and technology. When you combine Trump’s legendary financial acumen—he has only six bankruptcies on his record—with his uncanny […]

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Last May, a boy sexually assaulted a girl in a bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Loudoun County, Virginia. The teen was convicted of the assault this week in a Virginia juvenile court. The incident, however, was grossly mishandled by Loudoun County schools. While the charges against the boy were pending, he was permitted to transfer to another county high school. The same boy is now accused of a sexual assault at Broad Run High School on October 6. The boy allegedly forced a girl into an empty classroom and "inappropriately touched her." The boy will be tried in that case next month.

“Pain is a marvelous purifier”: Corporal punishment, Evangelicals, and the Doctrine of Obedience

The tunes that Lin-Manuel Miranda cut from his Broadway show are more numerous — and more revealing — than you might think. Here's where they belong in the song order.

There are no “right people” to hate.

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The Software Freedom Conservancy has given Trump’s social network Truth Social 30 days to comply with the AGPLv3 license governing Mastodon, the service that provided its underlying code.

Beyond the rhetoric, there's a surprisingly broad consensus about the importance of teaching a more honest version of American history.