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This Border Deal Is a Political Trap for Democrats
For the past two months, a small group of senators from both parties has been negotiating a deal to address…
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What Trump Voters Understand About the Economy
Why is Donald Trump continuing to poll so strongly with voters? As unpalatable as a second Trump term would be,…
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Another Gunfight Is Looming in Tennessee
Red-state legislatures are the incubator and the proving ground of many varieties of right-wing nutjobbery that go on to affect…
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The Responsibility of Republican Voters
Iowa Republicans who will gather on Monday to cast the first votes of the 2024 presidential campaign season, and voters…
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Joyce Randolph, Last of the ‘Honeymooners,’ Is Dead at 99
Joyce Randolph, who played the wife of a guffawing, rubber-limbed sewer worker forever mired in a blowhard neighbor’s get-rich-quick schemes…
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The Miseducation of Nikki Haley
After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month,…
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The Appeal of an All-American Strongman
Cheryl Sharp, a 47-year-old sales associate who was among the many Iowans turned away from a filled-to-capacity Trump rally last…
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The Iowa Caucuses Are Not a Delightful Game
Ah, the Iowa caucuses. So much drama. So much antici … pation. So much money and energy spent on an…
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Opposing D.E.I. Does Not Mean Opposing Diversity
There are few national conversations more frustrating than the fight over D.E.I. Short for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” the term…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Wasn’t a Lone Messiah
Almost 56 years after his death, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stands apart from the other civil rights…