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OK everyone has been having a great old time with this Natalie Harp story but: (1) She's nuts (2) Her origin story -- miraculous cancer survivor -- is sketchy in.

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Bottomless narcissistic rage

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I know it's getting extremely repetitive to the point of banality, but if any previous president had done this it would have been a massive scandal: (free link) President Trump has opened a new front in his campaign to intimidate political foes, threatening a prominent liberal...
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On Polls

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Democratic pollsters are contorting themselves to try to reconcile the claim that voters are closet doctrinal moderates or centrists with victories of members of the Democratic Socialist party. As numerous people have suggested, maybe the median voter isn't tracking the minutiae of whether a candidate is...
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Scenes from a loveless marriage

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Michelle Goldberg's column (free link) about a couple of new novels whose plots revolve around the breakup of the United States uses the same trope I used a few days ago when discussing the same issue -- that of an increasingly loveless marriage. This is in...

MAGA DEI

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President Donald Trump accepts the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize from FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Friday, December 5, 2025, during the FIFA World Cup drawing at the John F. Kennedy Center.

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