I was working in El Salvador when President Nayib Bukele declared a state of exception. In 2022, after a sudden spike in homicides, he suspended due process and sent soldiers into neighborhoods.

Turner Van Slyke ’28 spearheaded an initiative at Stanford to protect student free speech and and civic engagement on campus.

AI is disrupting entry-level work, and graduates constitute a growing share of the long-term unemployed. But the degree's value still holds.

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to upend the Department of Education as it currently functions. It plans to lay off at least half of the department's ...

Mr. Dionne is a contributing Opinion writer. Politics are often distorted by arguments rooted in false choices. It’s hard to find a better example than the one Democrats keep wrestling with: Should ...

Peck’s new documentary "Orwell: 2+2=5" uses the author's own words to confront propaganda, doublespeak and the spread of ...

Joe Biden’s win in 2020 offered a reprieve, but the hope was short-lived. Trump’s 2024 comeback, coupled with his loyalists ...

Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing—all are part of an escalating war over words.

We speak to Bishop William J. Barber II about conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk’s killing and the right-wing weaponization of his death. Barber says outrage over political violence should ...

In a sit down interview, Assistant Bluff Editor Jackson Oswald argues that in contemporary media, comedy comes with a hidden ...

Geoffrey Kabaservice on political violence and assassinations in the 1960s. Plus: Is Trump making a massive political miscalculation?

The historian talks about the follow-up to her book Wild Swans, witnessing famine and revolution, and her frustrations with modern China.