Our veterans affairs reporter looks back on the year.

Rather than tell his fellow New Yorkers to lower their expectations of what government could do, the city’s new mayor vowed that “the only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.” ...

Silicon Valley has pioneered lawbreaking like never before, turning illegal ventures into untold billions. Elon Musk helped Donald Trump bring this same approach to Washington. Discussion of AI often ...

Contra again?

Several former members of the Biden administration, including a cabinet official, are going to work for New York City’s new mayor. Here’s what they have planned.

The Trump administration’s plans to lower prices are just Biden-era retreads. Unfortunately, they’re just plans, with no ...

Our John Lewis Writing Fellow shares her favorite stories of the year.

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Trump has torn down that pillar and also used it to knock down rural health care. “Under Biden, America was at least going to get a piece of the high-tech industries of the future. Trump is just ...

First came the shock treatment administered by DOGE, which dispatched teenage sociopaths to hack into the Treasury Department’s payment systems and stop payment to anything deemed “woke,” change the ...

Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.

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