How Donald Trump Became Unbeatable
Not too long ago, Donald Trump looked finished. After the January 6 attack on the Capitol, the repeal of Roe v. Wade, and a poor Republican showing in…
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The End Is Coming for Trump’s GOP Rivals
The arctic chill that upended the final weekend of the Iowa Republican caucus provided a fitting end to a contest that has seemed frozen in place for months.…
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The Big COVID Question for Hospitals This Fall
Back in the spring, around the end of the COVID-19 public-health emergency, hospitals around the country underwent a change in dress code. The masks that staff had been…
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Norovirus Is Almost Impossible to Stop
In one very specific and mostly benign way, it’s starting to feel a lot like the spring of 2020: Disinfection is back. “Bleach is my friend right now,”…
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Outdoor Dining Is Doomed
These days, strolling through downtown New York, where I live, is like picking your way through the aftermath of a party. In many ways, it is exactly that:…
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The Case for Kraken
A new subvariant of SARS-CoV-2 is rapidly taking over in the U.S.—the most transmissible that has ever been detected. It’s called XBB.1.5, in reference to its status as…
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The Obama Nostalgia Show
PHILADELPHIA—Outside the basketball arena at Temple University, a long line of anxious Democrats contemplated their party’s possibly bleak political future, as a brass band played Taylor Swift’s “Shake…
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Do Voters Care About John Fetterman’s Stroke?
Every second of every day, oxygen-rich blood is coursing through your brain. Your heart pumps it up through your chest and neck, along tinier and tinier arterial tubes,…
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What Democrats Don’t Understand About Ron Johnson
APPLETON, Wisconsin—Senator Ron Johnson was midway through a rambling speech on all that’s wrong with America—his villains included runaway debt, the porous southern border, gender-affirming medical treatment, and…
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The Val Demings Gamble
On a hot D.C. Wednesday in the middle of July, an 11-foot statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune—carved out of marble extracted from the same Tuscan quarry that Michelangelo…
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