Colin Jost and Michael Che’s “Weekend Update” joke swap is a celebration of friendship, bad taste, and the importance of context.

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They are a part of what’s going right in American higher education, the part that critics (like me) don’t write about enough.

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This is the vulture’s advantage. When Donald Trump launched his attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, he believed the war ...

Panelists joined to discuss what the summit in Beijing may mean for the U.S. and China.

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Spare a moment, please, for the lame-duck superpower. It calls itself the leader of the free world, but the free world no ...

Nami Mun is the author of the novel Miles From Nowhere and a recipient of the Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award. The Vessel, her novel about the ...

A few years ago, Magic Johnson told a story about Michael Jackson that seems almost unimaginable today. In the 1980s, the ...

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