The 2024 election may come down to whether an electorate firmly in the acceptance stage of grief backslides into the second
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One party seems to have been swallowed by its candidate; the other candidate appears to have been swallowed by her party
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There will be no Covid to save Democrats this time. Nor will there be an ‘October surprise’ damaging enough to neutralize Trump
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Voters will determine who has the better strategy
By Amber Duke
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When it comes to what a Trump or Harris presidency could achieve, the answer may be determined by a handful of extremely close senatorial elections
By Ben Domenech
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Consider the ancient Greek understanding of the natural world
By Peter Jones
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The Democratic VP nominee’s ties leave unanswered questions
By Ian Williams
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The Scheme may not be of much interest, but it certainly tells its reader something about the man whose name is on the cover
By Declan Leary
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I still feel politically homeless, only it’s different: I don’t know which candidate terrifies me more
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Will new generations ever be able to afford a home?
By Joel Kotkin
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Appalachia and assassination attempts
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America’s elite has been cowardly and conformist for too long, with effects that are only too obvious
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To be the Israeli Bismarck is no mean feat. But there may be a sting in Bibi’s tail
By Niall Ferguson and Jay Mens
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Dreaming about being a statesman is one thing; being one is quite another
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The Chinese Communist Party is keen to foster the antagonism
By Cindy Yu
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Books + Arts
The chief sin of Amazon’s The Rings of Power is that it is often simply dull
By J.S. Barnes
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In Agent Zo, Clare Mulley has written a thrilling, consistently tense page-turner
By Mark Piesing
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Rebel Sounds is an uplifting compendium of hidden histories of those who have produced, performed and distributed music in times of war
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Deborah Levy’s latest book is a sketch of the author in motion
By Esme Bright
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Rhodri Lewis’s book offers so many fresh insights and well-turned phrases that I had to buy a new notebook to fit them all in
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Maureen Callahan challenges us to ask whether our American heroes are really who we think they are
By Josie Cox
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Abbasi’s heady weaving of the antic and the deadly serious may explain some of the criticism that’s been leveled at the film
By Laura Allsop
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What the notorious films have to say about masculinity in crisis?
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Ukrainian nationals and their allies have been working tirelessly to promote the voices of a people under siege
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Sabin Howard brings classicism back to the Mall
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Life
Perhaps the Chicago White Sox’s swift decline was not the result of a calculated scheme but rather a classic case of Murphy’s Law
By Ryan Spaeder
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The NIH operates a website called Noisy Planet. There you will learn that experts advise you to ‘move away from the noise’
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I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately because I recently turned seventy and was considering throwing a big birthday party
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Since democracy is dead in New York, I write in dead persons
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Does the Old Republican Establishment really believe that it can resurrect, reassemble, recreate itself and run — and win — again?
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Simplicity is the point: to strip transportation down to its essence and forget you’re living in 2024
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Place
Dead shows, whether Grateful or & Company, bring a bunch of disparate people together
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What Bacon’s Castle looks like inside and out has about it the undeniable strangeness of the past
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The French city is rich in history, culture and class of all kinds
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Food and Drink
‘I feel like New York is the city that is always exploring new things. If you have a new idea, you put it here’
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In Britain and Ireland, children and poor people would go door to door on November 2, singing and asking for soul cakes
By Jane Stannus
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The cocktail is a love letter to the tangled, intoxicating spirit of New Orleans
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Isn’t one’s taste in wine a classic instance of de gustibus non disputandum est? Well, yes and no
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And Finally
They’re the perfect tool for a politician: they make complex issues look simple
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It might not define all that Americans want in a president
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