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How Trump Sabotaged His Own Apotheosis
The six days that carried Donald Trump from the stage in Butler, Pa., to the rostrum at the Republican National…
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The Week When So Much Changed
An assassination attempt. An official Republican presidential nominee who is also the most polarizing figure in modern American history. Growing…
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The Republican Party Has a Split-Personality Problem
There is a paradox at the heart of Donald Trump’s campaign, a potentially irreconcilable divide that could damage his potential…
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Our Solution to the Crisis of Democracy
Remember the 1990s, when everybody thought liberal democracy was the only game in town and the end of history was…
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Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Champion for Progressive Causes, Dies at 74
Ms. Lee, who represented a district in the Houston area for nearly three decades, said in June that she had…
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Russia Punishes Those Who Seek the Truth
The only surprise in the guilty verdict against Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent who was arrested in Russia…
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Can We ‘Make America Affordable Again’? Should We?
The third item on the 2024 Republican Party platform, after promises to seal the border and engage in mass deportations,…
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Bernice Johnson Reagon, a Musical Voice for Civil Rights, Is Dead at 81
A singer, composer, curator and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, she provided a gospel soundtrack…
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Happy Traum, Mainstay of the Folk Music World, Dies at 86
A noted guitarist and banjo player, he emerged from the same Greenwich Village folk-revival scene as his friend and sometime…
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Bobby Grier, Who Integrated the Sugar Bowl in 1956, Dies at 91
The governor of Georgia tried to ban him from the game, but the state’s Board of Regents let him play.…