The Dead-Enders of the Reagan-Era GOP
For those of us who very much want to see Donald Trump defeated in November by the widest possible margin, the news on Friday afternoon that former Vice…
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How Much Less to Worry About Long COVID Now
Compared with the worst days of the pandemic—when vaccines and antivirals were nonexistent or scarce, when more than 10,000 people around the world were dying each day, when…
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You Should Go to a Trump Rally
If Donald Trump has benefited from one underappreciated advantage this campaign season, it might be that no one seems to be listening to him very closely anymore. This…
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What Is Nikki Haley Even Talking About?
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. N ikki Haley was standing a few feet in front of…
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The House Republicans Who Have Had Enough
House Republicans didn’t exactly have a banner year in 2023. They made history for all the wrong reasons. Last January, they presided over the most protracted election for…
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Pack Your Memories Into Your Disaster Bag
This April, when a 1,000-year storm drenched South Florida, my father and older sister were among the thousands of people abruptly hit with severe flash flooding. They made…
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Why Biden Should Shift the Debate to This Topic
President Joe Biden and Democrats cannot win the debate over the economy without fundamentally reframing the terms of the choice they are offering voters, an extensive new research…
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Trump Voters Are America Too
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the last spring of the Obama administration, Michelle Obama was…
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Ron DeSantis Does Not Seem to Be Enjoying Himself
On Saturday afternoon, with just over six weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, Ron DeSantis told a story about how he once bravely stood up to the…
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The Future of Obesity Drugs Just Got Way More Real
A wild idea recently circulated about the future of aviation: If passengers lose weight via obesity drugs, airlines could potentially cut down on fuel costs. In September, analysts…
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The Republicans Have No Majority
Mike Johnson now knows what Kevin McCarthy was dealing with. At the new speaker’s behest, House Republicans today relied on Democratic votes to avert a government shutdown by…
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Zero Lead Is an Impossible Ask for American Parents
Over the past eight months, I’ve spent a mind-boggling amount of time and money trying to keep an invisible poison at bay. It started at my daughter’s 12-month…
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Nikki Haley’s Dilemma Is Also the Republicans’ Problem
Republicans have had 10 months to hammer out a coherent post-Roe message on abortion. You would think they’d have nailed it by now. Yet on Tuesday, Nikki Haley…
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America’s COVID Booster Rates Are a Bad Sign for Winter
And just like that, with the passing of Labor Day, fall was upon us. Seemingly overnight, six-packs of pumpkin beer materialized on grocery shelves, hordes of city dwellers…
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What Europe’s COVID Wave Means for the U.S.
Winter is coming. Again. For the past two years, colder temperatures have brought seasonal COVID upticks, which turned into massive waves when ill-timed new variants emerged. In Western…
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