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When concrete rains down on your car
Five years after the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law, the money may be running out
May 20
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Ted Turner, a captain who could only have come from America
Winning was the only thing
May 11
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When the dragon of the Senate tried to tame the Supreme Court
Is court-packing the way to go?
May 8
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King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Horrible Heffalump
We love the U.K. but they still can't have Winnie-the-Pooh
Apr 29
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A warning from the Jimmy Carter era
Trump's slow-motion Cabinet purge
Apr 23
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Elon Musk is becoming Donald Trump's biggest headache
Dec 19, 2024
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J.D. Vance's Cactus Jack problem
Mar 16
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Judges who stand up to presidents
May 29, 2025
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The conservative Supreme Court justice Trump can't rely on
Jan 12, 2025
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Pope Leo gets the last laugh
What Trump doesn't know about papal history fills volumes
Apr 19
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The most powerful weapon Trump has to open the Strait of Hormuz is the one he least wants to use
Hugo Grotius figured it out in 1609
Apr 12
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America is at war with a country it doesn't understand
Seven decades of wishful thinking on Iran
Apr 6
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Trump faces a wrenching choice
Iwo Jima and the danger of 'boots on the ground'
Mar 28
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What Theodore Roosevelt learned in the Badlands
And why his presidential library is finally opening...in Medora, North Dakota
Mar 25
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J.D. Vance's Cactus Jack problem
As Trump flails, his veep faces the peril of being proven right
Mar 16
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The old soldier who warned against Trump's war
Hubris and an almost-forgotten war
Mar 11
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