Our government institutions are in crisis — which is why the Supreme Court is so important
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‘The best room I was in the whole week was probably the first car of Amtrak’
By Ben Smith
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An older generation of Kennedys sold hope. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is offering something weirder
By Rosie Gray
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The average American is hardly woke. But it’s difficult to cast your eye across the country and see a groundswell for individual liberty either
By Matt Purple
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Gunrunning has shot to the top of the US-Mexico agenda
By Ioan Grillo
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An anti-Democrat, somewhat anti-Republican and not consistently conservative candidate may be exactly what GOP voters want
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If Trump had an ounce of self-awareness, he would not run
By Ann Coulter
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There is nothing to stop an assisted suicide regime once it has been put into place
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When it comes to cars, tomorrow can take its good old time in charging ahead
By Teresa Mull
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BuzzFeed, Paper and the click crash of 2023
By Ben Domenech
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We are living posthumous lives amid the shells of the institutions that once animated our political life
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Kevin Roberts wants to return his think tank to the heart of the conservative conversation
By Amber Duke
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Aristotle argued that justice, which was good, depended on a form of equality
By Peter Jones
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It’s unsettling to dismantle your life and peek into every nook and cranny after decades of gathering stuff
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Faced with a growing pile of Hitchenalia, the obvious question is ‘why?’
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‘We may be history’
By Ben Lazarus
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The age of the influencer appears to be swiftly coming to an end
By Kara Kennedy
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LIV Golf keeps upping the stakes in its revolt against the game’s establishment
By Kevin Cook
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Books + Arts
The writer’s forgotten imagination and commitment to exploration merit revival
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A well-researched new biography of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
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But will the restoration of Utica survive?
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Pyramid schemes work because we all have points of vulnerability
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is as clumsy as its plodding title
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It seems that the ‘revised’ titles are likely to become the norm
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Bad Cinderella is a pumpkin, while Parade becomes an exercise in emotional torture porn
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On the fortieth anniversary of her debut album, Madonna remains a good Catholic girl at heart
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She provides a new lens to look at Impressionism
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The National Gallery of Art has quietly but steadily undergone a major culture shift
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Life
A total disregard for the law is now acceptable, with bikers openly performing glissandos past very fat and short traffic wardens
By Taki
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One should never complain about not being invited to something
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One of Ford Madox Ford’s novels is called A Man Could Stand Up. Well, this one couldn’t
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Heaven’s Gate is a 200-minute-plus mess of beautiful incoherences and stupefying contradictions
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Education on a mass scale is adjusted to and reflective of the limitations of the average citizen’s intellectual abilities and his competency
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For this artist, life is an adventure, not a struggle
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Place
Celebrities flock here to film at the biggest movie studio in Africa
By Adrian Brune
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Sin City is proud of its inglorious past
By Jim Buckley
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Food and Drink
Rosa ‘loves to be surrounded by nice people who like to eat well and offer free smiles all the time’
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It’s like dropping into the opening scene of an Agatha Christie story: anything could happen
By Jane Stannus
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Alone or in company, a good swizzle stick encourages deliberateness
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I’ve always aspired to be the kind of woman who can ‘just toss something together,’ making a light, fresh, delicious dish with ease
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Horace knew what to do: apprise him frankly of what to expect and drop a hopeful hint
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Banning children from restaurants is something that pops up every few years, like the Olympics or a cicada infestation
By Neal Pollack
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And Finally
They claim to have ‘relevant lived experience’ by which to alter classic literature
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