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President Donald Trump’s media diet is posing a frightening threat to American democracy in the final days of his administration.

The president is reportedly seeking advice and comfort from unhinged conspiracy theorists who are urging him on as he tries to overturn the election he lost, while raging at those who warn against those actions.

In Oval Office meetings over the last

When the founders of our newspaper fled a communist regime to come to America, they never expected that this great nation would one day become the focal point of the battle between communism and freedom.

Many Americans believe communism is an abstract concept, something that only affects faraway nations, without realizing that it has already arrived at our doorstep.

Communism has

In discussions of poverty in the US, child poverty tends to get most of the focus.

And I think there are good reasons for that. While the US has more poverty than other rich countries in general, it is a particular outlier on child poverty. In 2016, the US poverty rate for children (defined as the share living on less than half the median income) was 20.9 percent, compared to 14.2

Undeterred by questions of delegate math or political momentum, Senator Bernie Sanders brushed off suggestions on Friday that his campaign had no way forward and forcefully made the case that he was the Democratic candidate better suited to defeat Donald J. Trump in a general election.

Mr. Sanders blitzed through Idaho, Utah and Arizona ahead of crucial nominating contests in those