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In Speaker Fight’s Final Hours, Arm-Twisting, Flaring Tempers and Calls from Trump
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s slog to his post ended with a remarkably public show of intraparty strife that played out in…
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Once Told to Move to the Back of the Bus, Jesse White Became an Illinois Institution
CHICAGO — Jesse White tells a story about being a Black college student from Chicago, newly arrived in Alabama in…
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Podcast Overload
How I kicked the “Red Scare” habit.
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World
Far-Right Critics Vex McCarthy in His Bakersfield District, Too
The Republican divisions posing problems for Representative Kevin McCarthy have been playing out not only on the House floor but…
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Biden Honors ‘Extraordinary Americans’ Who Defended Democracy on Jan. 6
President Biden marked the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack by awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to 14 people.
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Facing Deadline, Dodgers Cut Ties With Trevor Bauer
The team is still required to pay Bauer $22.5 million for 2023 even after designating him for assignment. The pitcher…
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‘The Vow’ Is Gripping TV That Doesn’t Solve Its Central Mysteries
Over Christmas, my wife and I finished watching Season 2 of “The Vow,” an HBO documentary about the unraveling of…
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Former U.S.C. Official Sentenced to Six Months for Role in College Admissions Scandal
Donna Heinel, as the gatekeeper for athletic recruits, played a key role in the sweeping college admissions scandal.
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Books
When the Writing Demands Talent and Discretion, Call the Ghostwriter
Ghostwriters write books in someone else’s voice — without leaving fingerprints. Doing it well requires great technical skill and a…
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Pope Benedict Wasn’t Conservative. He Was Something Much More Surprising.
“The words of a dead man,” W.H. Auden wrote in his elegy for a fellow poet, “are modified in the…