Politics

An HBCU has banned durags and bonnets. That reinforces anti-Blackness

Tuskegee University’s dress code is a marker of a harmful politics of respectability. In my academic career, it’s become all too familiar

The Key to Understanding the Traditionalists

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The Man Who Refused to Sit on the Sidelines

Kevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, taught his sons to take action. When he disappeared on 9/11, they went to Ground Zero to search for him.

Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for war crimes

Verdict relates to atrocities committed during the country’s 14-year civil war in which about 500,000 people died

Here are the key Minnesota primary races to watch

Minnesota is holding its partisan primary elections on Tuesday, less than three months before voters will decide the governorship and key congressional races.

Russia is firing North Korean missiles at Ukraine, Zelenskyy claims, as more overnight attacks kill 9

Updated on: August 11, 2026 / 6:25 AM EDT / CBS/AP

FIFA World Cup 'will never be as profitable' if Infantino is ousted, Trump warns amid global soccer revolt

President Gianni Infantino pushed FIFA's commercialization drive, which culminated in the largest, most profitable World Cup on record

Lisa Murkowski got the SAVE America Act wrong

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has misread the SAVE America Act. In her Wall Street Journal op-ed laying out her opposition to the legislation, she repeatedly misstates what the bill requires, overlooks safeguards written directly into its text, and presents speculative worst-case scenarios as inevitable consequences. Her misbegotten criticism rests on several fundamental misreadings of the legislation and is just as wrong as the critics of “Seward’s Folly.”

The Democrats Can’t Just Laugh Off ‘Woke 1’

Republicans have no incentive to let them forget past excesses.

“We have to smash the state”: the Left prepares for war

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Democrats try to dodge 'Woke 1'

Enter Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and a new line with which she tries to steer between the Scylla and Charybdis of political destruction. Speaking Sunday, she brushed off some of the most extreme policies that she and others have supported by laughing and saying, “Woke 1 was crazy.”

What Abdul El-Sayed’s Win Means for Democrats

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