Imagine someone needs to convince you of a surprising fact — say, that your partner is cheating on you. Your best friend might be direct:…

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Words matter. Especially when uttered by a president, and especially overseas. “Speak softly, and carry a big stick,” Theodore Roosevelt advised, though he never envisioned…

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Voters are understandably perplexed by Kamala Harris’ economic agenda, on which her campaign has offered little substance and little more than a string of vague…

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Who knew? Oklahoma needs Bibles.Lots of them. Like 55,000. That’s the scale of the request issued by Ryan Walters, superintendent of public instruction for Oklahoma.…

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The unsealing last week of the government’s case against Donald Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss was a gift to 2024 voters,…

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What role, if any, will the Supreme Court play in the November presidential election? That is the crucial, unknowable question, as the court returns from…

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As the candidates for vice president took the stage in New York on Tuesday night, the state of North Carolina was under water, Israel was…

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Some right-leaning voters who oppose Donald Trump are thinking of voting neither for him nor Kamala Harris.I understand how they feel. In 2016, I published…

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I can’t get over how much I have in common with Usha Vance, wife of the Republican vice presidential candidate. We both grew up in…

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Just up the road from Oakland and Berkeley, the city of Richmond is a minority and low-income community of 115,500 people — mainly Latino, Black…

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Of all Donald Trump’s rhetorical predilections, one that goes largely unmentioned is his addiction to superlatives. No one has ever seen anything like virtually everything…

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Last month on Truth Social, former President Trump reposted a collage of young women wearing “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts. Most of the images clearly looked…

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Another unwell person sought to kill Donald Trump, according to the FBI and other officials. We should all be grateful that no one was hurt,…

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Lucky for the Republicans who run the House, few Americans are paying attention to their antics of late, given the focus on the presidential race.…

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Many factors explain why people across Western democracies vote for politicians like former President Trump, including economic concerns, rural resentment and racial animosity. Although Trump…

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If Trump is elected president, he will have pulled off quite the con — Robin Hood in reverse. His economic policies call for transferring trillions…

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If it’s strength they need, there’s strength in numbers.I’m referring to former officials who worked for Donald Trump, especially the national security stewards, who have…

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For 15 minutes, everything was fine for Donald Trump. He was winning the debate, in fact. The opening questions were about the economy, cost of…

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In Kamala Harris’ first major interview as a presidential candidate, she was asked whether she would stop weapons from going to Israel because of the…

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Whatever else Kamala Harris is doing to prep for her debate with Donald Trump on Tuesday, she’s already shown that she knows how to handle…

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