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Internet
Is he really living his life a quarter mile at a time now — or is the Paul Walker tee all for show?
Mary Katharine Ham
Policy
Harry, Meghan and others are at the forefront of pushing for the US to adopt more UK-style approaches to internet regulation
Taylor Millard
The president’s ability to issue mass pardons is essentially a royal prerogative to change the law and court decisions
Charles Lipson
Tech
The billionaires have chosen their sides. What does that mean for the rest of us?
Joel Kotkin
Politics
The Democrats were shockingly disorganized and spastic
Ben Domenech
The Romans built aqueducts stretching hundreds of miles in less time than it takes to permit an outbuilding in California — and their aqueducts actually held water
Riva-Melissa Tez
LA
Residents remain in fight-or-flight mode, dealing with emotions and reality of loss
Matt Bilinsky
International
The UK’s post-Cold War record in our own backyard has been lamentable
Stewart McDonald
Place
‘West is best’ has been axiomatic for centuries, so this is the cultural equivalent of the earth’s magnetic poles flipping around
Sean Thomas
Education
Recent findings in both archaeology and DNA reveal that many of the stories we once regarded as fantasy appear to be true (or true-ish)
Ed West
The same skills that helped Karoline Leavitt become an instant hit on the radio will serve her well behind a new microphone on the briefing room podium
Grace Curley
What really powers the film is the goodwill of the audience towards the franchise as a whole
James Walton
The Price of Victory has been edited with precision, percipience and lightness of touch
Allan Mallinson
It’s not your standard biopic
Deborah Ross
It is an enormous shame that he will no longer be a presence in Hollywood — if, of course, he ever was
Alexander Larman
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were introduced to the endangered fish on their 1806 expedition through Oregon
Mark Mason
The green walls of my bedroom would fade away and we became other people in faraway worlds
Kate Weinberg
Chicago’s legendary liqueur… isn’t as bad as people say
Ed Zotti
The wine is eminently drinkable, by which I mean two people can get outside of a bottle before they can say ‘antipasto’
Roger Kimball
It was clearly inspired by satirical American and British shows about politics
The goals aren’t the same in each place — and some movements are far more serious than others
Dave Seminara
Spectator Editorial
In almost every role that matters, Trump has opted for a nominee who has been an extreme critic of the very body he or she is set to oversee
Diary
The American people are tired of having the wool pulled over their eyes by Democrats
Scott Jennings
How I became a Japowder junkie
Amy Rose Everett
Book Review
Gabriel’s Moon is the welcome return of one of Britain’s most reliably gripping novelists
Philip Womack