A Manchurian Candidate, as initially defined in Richard Condon's 1959 novel and the 1966 movie, is a nation’s leader controlled by that country’s enemy.

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As of June 2025, ICE agents are storming California farms, mom-and-pop restaurants, and Home Depot parking lots — chasing undocumented workers through blueberry fields in chaotic mass sweeps to ...

Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test ...

"Black lives matter — I get it now,” my aunt declared in 2020. “You’ve been saying it for years.” Yes, I told her. I have. It shouldn’t have taken the ...

When is a “school choice” proposal not really about school choice? In the budget bill that Republicans rushed through the House on May 12, 2025, school choice is just a cover- ...

I was never a huge fan of hardcore punk music. That being said, I have seen dozens if not hundreds of punk shows. From Vancouver, BC’s DOA to Washington, DC’s Bad Brains, I long ago lost count ...

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Dean Baker is the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

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