Politics
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John Kerry: ‘I Feel Deeply Frustrated’
When former Secretary of State John Kerry stepped into a newly created post as America’s top climate diplomat in 2021,…
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Malachy McCourt, Actor, Memoirist and Gadabout, Dies at 92
Playing the professional Irishman, he returned from Limerick to New York, where he tended bar, appeared in soap operas, wrote…
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‘Oppenheimer’ Is the Origin Story. These Three Movies Reveal Our Nuclear Present.
By W.J. Hennigan Produced by Phoebe Lett The national security writer W. J. Hennigan has spent many years ringing the…
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Why the Supreme Court Should Clear the Way for a Pre-Election Trump Trial
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that Colorado could not keep Donald Trump off its presidential primary ballot,…
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On the Wild Intoxications of Spring
I spied the first spring beauty of the year on Feb. 20, the same week a Northern flicker started drumming…
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$1.2 Million Homes in California
A three-bedroom house in Glendale, a Craftsman bungalow in San Francisco and a two-bedroom condominium in a gated retirement community…
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And the Award for Best Performance at the State of the Union Goes to …
Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. I think it’s safe to say that Joe Biden’s confident performance at the State of the…
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Democrats Need to Stop Playing Nice
There is a moment in the 2008 HBO movie “Recount” that illuminates an essential difference between Republicans and Democrats. The…
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Change Is Coming to Iran, Just Not the Change We Hoped For
The next generation of the country’s leaders want authority, not theocracy.
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‘Oppenheimer,’ My Uncle and the Secrets America Still Doesn’t Like to Tell
The darkened sky stretches over miles of desert sand as in the distance, from an illuminated scaffold, the object rises…