America
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The Squandered Potential of Tim Scott
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this week having failed to make…
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No, Immigrants Aren’t ‘Poisoning the Blood of Our Country’
Does Donald Trump ever visit Queens, the land of his youth? If he did, he would presumably be horrified. According…
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Why Is the Democratic Base Eroding?
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The New Republican Party Isn’t Ready for the Post-Roe World
Ohio is not a swing state, not any longer. Donald Trump won it by eight points, twice. It has a…
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Books
Lying All the Way to the Bank in ‘America Fantastica’
Tim O’Brien’s manic satire follows a disgraced journalist on a criminal road trip through a myth-addled nation.
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A Brief History of a Problematic Appetizer
Americans didn’t always have an appetite for squid. As recently as 1970, U.S. fishermen caught squid mostly by mistake, and…
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Are There Lessons for Israel From America’s Response to 9/11?
If you compare the massacres carried out by Hamas in Israel with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as…
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Style
Down the Rabbit Hole With Miffy
Hordes of young adults in North America are embracing joy and childhood nostalgia with Miffy, a poker-faced, fictional, Dutch bunny.
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The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana
When Hamas attacked Israel, Republicans knew whom to blame: President Biden. Donald Trump asserted that the attack wouldn’t have happened…
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The Israel-Gaza War Means Hard Choices for Ukraine
For the last two years, the debate over the American commitment to Ukraine has turned, in part, on whether we…