Biden’s decision-making is making America weaker on the world stage. But would a second Trump term be all that much better?
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With a mixture of trepidation and exhilarated curiosity, I await our future
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Biden was invisible, Trump inevitable, nothing much left to say
By Freddy Gray
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The destruction of the country for the sake of temporary partisan advantage seems a high price to pay
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The former FBI chaplain ministered to the dead and dying on 9/11. Terminal cancer means his time is coming, too
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That this particular little niche engenders such blowback says a lot — not about the influencers, but about us
By Inez Stepman
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One of the most entrenched rules in life is that the grass is always greener on the other side. It seems doubly true for women
By Josie Cox
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The man who built the National Rifle Association into a juggernaut leaves it in disarray
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When I emerged onto Twitter in 2015, I felt like I was driving a jalopy on a freeway filled with Teslas
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Four years into ‘two weeks to stop the spread,’ the main characters of the pandemic have taken to revisionism
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Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce both involve bizarre fishing rules
By Ilya Shapiro
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In Greek, dêmagôgos was a neutral term meaning ‘leader of the people.’ But it could be used to describe a rabble rouser
By Peter Jones
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The former president came into office as an agent of chaos, but his foreign policy ended up relatively stable. Will that change in a second term?
By Ben Domenech
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Reality itself is contested today in a way that goes beyond anything in earlier US history
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For Italians — and for everyone else — there is a warning from history
By Paul Wood
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‘The reason maple syrup tastes so good is because there’s love in every jar’
By Teresa Mull
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Books + Arts
Alexander Ward’s carefully researched new account argues Biden is POTUS in name only
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The End of Race Politics expands on the arguments the writer has made for several years
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Beverly Hills Spy is the story of the espionage war with Japan, and the damaging rivalry between intelligence services that prevented them from working together
By Mark Piesing
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When you give a child a book by a celebrity, you are feeding their minds with advertising
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As a portrait of the thrilling, rackety milieu of the seventeenth-century literary world, Francesca Peacock’s Pure Wit is truly delightful
By Lisa Hilton
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Hits, Flops and Other Illusions is a fascinating book, both for what it includes and what it either omits or deals with in parentheses
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Even post-cancellation, we still live in the pop culture universe the screenwriter created
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‘I feel I’ve been rewarded for following my own path,’ she reflects, ‘and for taking the road less traveled’
By Cat Woods
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For theater aficionados, there is hope
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In his imperfect, weird way, the artist was trying to understand something so deeply beautiful in itself, mere created beings cannot fully grasp it
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Life
‘I like to be living the life of the restaurant of Le Bernardin’
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It’s not a conscious or cruel dumping — it’s the dump of indifference
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Pat Weissend’s interest in US presidents was sparked in his boyhood by little effigies his aunt gave him
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The vast majority of people neither living in what they call ‘real time’ nor experiencing life and the world itself at first hand
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Place
Celebrities may have moved onto flashier Alpine neighbors, but this iconic French ski resort still has star quality
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Italy has hosted the championships since they began in 2021, first in Torino and now in Genoa
By Adrian Brune
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We arrive at a stream that eventually leads down to Lake Poikkipuoliainen. Stopping to look, it occurs to me that I’ve not seen another soul in days
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Food and Drink
You could search all fifty states, from sea to shining sea, and never come close to finding a proper scone
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It provided everything a human being requires — and it was a two-minute walk from my house
By Ed Zotti
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You needn’t travel to Ireland to celebrate its saint’s day
By Hannah Moore
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Some enterprising chaps organized a dinner revolving around the delectable fungus and one of the very best wines from St. Émilion
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As the living chicken breaks out of the egg, so the immortal Christ breaks the seal of the tomb
By Jane Stannus
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With all their foibles, this community of commenters has become essential to my kitchen
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And Finally
If you should be lucky enough to catch a fish in Scotland, you have to put it back
By Prue Leith
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The history of the word is fearfully complicated and obscure
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