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These tropical forests are critically important. Why is this religious sect cutting them down?

Over the last few decades, wildfires, farmers, and cattle ranchers have razed millions of acres of tropical forests across the planet. Much of that deforestation…

Where House, Senate battles stand six months out

In today’s issue: Democrats are feeling increasingly bullish about their prospects for the midterm elections with less than six months remaining before voters head to…

Harriet Clark’s Début Is a New Kind of Coming-of-Age Novel

In “The Hill,” a daughter comes of age through visits to her imprisoned mother, inheriting the afterlife of a youthful radicalism that shattered her family.

The Artist Who Made America Look Like a Promised Land

Frederic Edwin Church sold a nation on its own mythology. That was his making—and his unmaking.

The Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory

Kimberlé Crenshaw gave us the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Her new memoir shows that she isn’t done fighting over what they mean.

The American Revolution Wasn’t That Big a Deal

Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather…

Crypto fight at center of FISA extension poised to escalate

A bid by hard-line conservatives to pass a measure banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) fell short, but the…

Republicans see GOP dysfunction as major liability ahead of midterms

Senate Republicans say the dysfunction in the House is becoming a liability for the broader GOP brand ahead of this year’s midterm elections, warning that…

PGA Tour warms back up to Trump after long freeze

The PGA Tour returned to President Trump’s golf resort in Doral, Fla., over the weekend, ending a decade-long absence and signaling a new era of…