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NEWS FROM THE HOME TEAM: Amy Mackinnon — long an agenda-setting national security reporter at Foreign Policy — is joining POLITICO as our new intelligence reporter, where she’ll be at the ...

As New York City yeshivas return to court amid claims of discrimination by the State Department of Education, we declare our complete lack of faith in the agency’s ability to ...