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In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

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It's a bipartisan problem in a country beset by polarization: Since the start of 2025, political violence has killed, injured or threatened conservative and liberal political figures alike. This month ...

President Trump seemed to excuse violence from right-wing or other supporters, and promised investigations into who was funding and organizing the left. By David E. Sanger David E. Sanger has covered ...

The Trump administration is using an imagined enemy—“antifa”—to justify turning ICE into an ultra-violent, unaccountable army invading US cities. The No Kings protests on October 18 were huge, ...

Readers respond to a column by Bret Stephens pointing out examples. To the Editor: Re “Now the Left Cares About Free Speech Again,” by Bret Stephens (column, Sept. 24): It is true that a number of ...

When J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobby, met last weekend in Washington for its annual policy conference, it had to scramble to adjust to a joint U.S.-Israel war on Iran that had begun two days ...