Campaigns are no longer a game of wooing voters with public debates, rallies and door knocking
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Our first year of marriage has involved a lot of hosting
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Instead of frank acknowledgment and robust action, Biden and his minders have retreated into Stalinist Newspeak
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Journalists who have worked at Tara McGowan’s news outlet say the ideals it publicly professes are a far cry from reality
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It’s not right versus left: it’s Dunkin’ versus Krispy Kreme, battling for the soul of the country
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How the Republican donor class blew another election
By Ben Domenech
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Donald Trump could face prison time this year. What would that look like?
By Neal Pollack
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The Golden State’s mandates look to be yet another case of progressive California dreaming
By Henry Olsen
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In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures
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As campaigns hit their stride, state voting regulations loom large, particularly in the battleground states
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Online language is evolving to leave a new generation of older users behind
By Jesse Singal
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The primary season is just getting started but the consultant backbiting has already begun
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The DA asks the questions others seem to ignore
By Amber Duke
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When it comes to women’s sports, former lacrosse coach Kim Russell is firmly in the camp of objective science
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Relations between the two countries have been hot and cold for years
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For Cicero, the debate was not so much about power as about the ethics of those seeking it
By Peter Jones
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Books + Arts
The trial at Falling Rocket’s center stands for something larger than a critic’s dislike of a painting
By Oliver Soden
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In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes seems unusually well attuned to his subject, while resisting any temptation to soft-pedal
By Philip Clark
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The writer was one of the great underrated chroniclers of ’the valley of the shadow of books’
By D.J. Taylor
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Francis Spufford’s latest is a gorgeously rich and multilayered story, packed with gunfire, music and superstition
By Amanda Craig
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Taking our mortality too seriously has been an increasing problem in our country. Thank heavens for the satirists who refuse to do so
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The drummer seems to have settled for the role of a wise elder statesman of rock ’n’ roll
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It’s unlikely a Crawford could happen in today’s Hollywood
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During a time of monstrous persecution, there was a band dedicated to joy that consisted of Jews and Gentiles
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For a game to work, it has to reach a complex balance of systems and narratives
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Since its launch in 2017, Convelio has become the leading technology-led art shipment company in the world
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Life
MMA has overtaken the sport in the public mind
By Kevin Cook
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The pleasure of life before was the open horizons of drink
By Zoe Strimpel
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Even an old grump like me has been having a good time
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Two decades after the camera tycoon entered the last darkroom, Henry Clune published a thinly veiled roman-à-clef about the morose magnate
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Place
A mile past the sleepy little town’s dusty high street lie cliffs of California proportions — with swells to match
By Adrian Brune
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There is a thrill to heading out to sea searching for these magnificent creatures
By Shez Shafiq
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Food and Drink
The Sichuanese are serious and methodical about flavor
By Hannah Moore
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If you’re looking for the grit and flavor of a smalltown dive, you won’t find it here
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Cold grates on cold nights are grim. Warm bright ones lift the spirits, whatever tidings the day may have brought
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You’ve likely made many GF/DF meals without even noticing
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And Finally
The sacred day is proof that, when life hands you six more weeks of winter, it can still be enjoyable
By Teresa Mull
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No one can tell such words’ pronunciation merely from their spelling
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