There are two sets of rules in Washington, one for the powerful and one for the rest of us
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When I went to West Maui four days after the fire, many people told me, ‘You’re the first person who has anything to do with the government who has shown up’
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What we’ve been told about Trump and Biden, about the other candidates for the Republican nomination and other Democratic aspirants, has mutated
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The self-published author saw what almost no one else did: the coming downfall of the American electrical system
By Emmet Penney
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Both sides have been co-opted by extremists who also happen to be misogynists
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Independent thought makes a comeback in progressive cities
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The winner Democrats picked in 2020 has turned them into long-range losers
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Paul Wood reports from Lampedusa, Africa’s gateway to Italy
By Paul Wood
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The border crisis is now taking over New York and Chicago. Will that change anything?
By Ben Domenech
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Don’t expect the Biden administration to acknowledge its errors, any more than it did after the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan
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You can only imagine — and recoil in horror at — the potential damage the Canadian prime minister’s economic illiteracy will unleash
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A degree of corpulence was the sign of a rich, healthy and prosperous man. But obesity turned one into a figure of fun or ignominy
By Peter Jones
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Barflies prove the irrelevance of most DC squabbles
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‘Any time you have energy, you have to dig something out of the ground’
By Teresa Mull
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They know your secrets — for good or ill
By Josie Cox
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More than a decade after Colorado became the first state to legalize marijuana in 2012, it is apparent that legalization has mostly failed based on the very criteria put forth by its champions
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Books + Arts
He is the myth-maker, the scholar, the convert, the defender of the faith, the rebel, the writer and the teacher
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While I expected the le Carré who emerges from it to be a womanizer, a fantasist and a self-server, I didn’t anticipate that he would be such a terrible bore
By D.J. Taylor
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Stuart Reid relates the whole convoluted tale lucidly, conveying the steadily growing atmosphere of confusion and fear
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Mustafa Suleyman’s new book is a rousing call-to-arms for humanity
By Mark Piesing
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A new translation and critical study explore the legendary poem’s numinous spell
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He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
By Aaron Gwyn
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In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
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Of the four Beatles, Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania
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Cinema’s pet subversive deserves a proper reappraisal
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There is, inevitably, a feeling of embarrassment and shame that emanates from institutions after they have been robbed
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Life
How the greatest streetwear brand lost its cool, sold its soul and — apparently — became ‘institutionally racist’
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Don’t get old, but if you do, you can fool Father Time by training the smart way
By Taki
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For all my bohemian pretensions, I’m just an old-fashioned bourgeois boy at heart
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Prose may be deathless, but authors are not — and some of us honor those who compose with visits to where they decompose
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You can bet the game’s embrace of its sportsbook partners will turn out better for them than for bettors
By Kevin Cook
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Place
Russian tourists are no longer free to travel to Finland — but thankfully for us Russian bears still are
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We set our phones to Do Not Disturb and tuck away our laptops. Goodbye, world
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Food and Drink
I do not know if there was corn in Eden but would like to think so
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Is it the best bar in Brooklyn? Certainly
By Jonny Kaldor
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In a world of ‘girl dinners,’ Melissa Clark is a woman
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The farmer turned politician is making a splash with two new blends
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The French love their oysters, and those from Arcachon are considered among the best
By Jane Stannus
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And Finally
It is more than a mixture of aggregate, water and cement
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If Wittgenstein got decimal arrangement from anywhere, it might have been from Whitehead and Russell’s Principia Mathematica
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