Since the election last November, Mar-a-Lago has taken on a new significance
By Nigel Farage
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A study by Carnegie Mellon University published in the journal Psychological Science in 2015 claimed so
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The author’s prospective Senate bid is interesting as more than just a test of Trumpism without Trump
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The Republicans need to separate the MAGA from the message
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Western civilization may not be perfect, we haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else in human history
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The current political disposition of the United States is at most a one-and-a-half party system
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P.J. Clarke’s is open again, the masks are off, the brews are cold, the regulars are back
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The Lebanese are living through a terrible economic experiment
By Paul Wood
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We should aspire to a better quality of family argument
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The technocrats are nudging us into a dystopia
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DeSantis is perfectly positioned to become the next Republican leader — if Trump steps aside
By Amber Duke
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Roughly a third of American adults believe that some UFOs are alien spacecraft
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If the United States succeeds in its case against Assange, it will set a chilling precedent
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The media is guilty of gross negligence on gender reassignment reporting
By Jesse Singal
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Don’t expect any meaningful solutions to the world’s biggest problems
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Advocating double standards for people on top and everyone else is a bad idea
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‘Rush Limbaugh on decaf’ doesn’t seem right for this political moment
By Matt Purple
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Books + Arts
Podcasting rose on the true crime boom — and it’s still the easiest way to build a show and an audience
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Why does no one talk about how most artistic careers end in failure?
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The craze that swept the US in the Roaring Twenties became a theater of cruelty that fed on the desperation of Depression-era Americans
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New Woman Behind the Camera brings together the whimsical and the confrontational to show how modernism shaped photography
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Only in fiction did Faulkner dare to reveal what he knew about the code of caste
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Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism by Mark Hussey reviewed
By Tom Williams
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The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon by Simon Fenwick reviewed
By Peter Parker
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Dismissed as a dime-store Shostakovich, then praised as a major modern composer
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The enduring popularity of the Vacation series reflects not just the American appetite for travel, but also that old American virtue of gung-ho optimism
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Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr reviewed
By David Crane
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Life
Idealism comes naturally to liberal societies because it has no inherent principles and no rules to follow
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Greenville’s favorite son is the poetically tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson, the illiterate millhand whom Babe Ruth called ‘the greatest hitter I had ever seen’
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Scots has been used as a spoken and a literary language
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As I wrestled with mine, my ward mate hung his head in shame
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I was the only foreign correspondent there — and it was the best day of my life
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For too long has Spirit been the punchline of hastily written Saturday Night Live jokes
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As the city reopens, one thing is for sure. The glamour days of Studio 54, Xenon and other fleshpots are not about to return
By Taki
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Charles, Prince of Wales, is having a little trouble with his son Harry
By Peter Jones
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Gibraltar is no longer a colonial outpost. It feels modern, cosmopolitan
By William Cook
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As the milk and sugar of summer, seersucker is best enjoyed full gulp
By James Panero
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Place
Food and Drink
Are energy drinks the work of the Devil?
By Ben Sixsmith
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The Cheesecake Factory is what a fashionable French writer would create in a novel if he needed a restaurant to embody American food excesses
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Grab a case before setting out on your next boat trip or barbecue
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