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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

An anti-Trump group produced four ads attacking his legal troubles. They backfired.

In late September, a conservative group opposing Donald Trump quietly tested four TV ads that aimed to weaken the former president by focusing on...

Virginia’s elections a key 2024 barometer and a huge test for rising GOP star Glenn Youngkin

All political eyes are on Virginia ahead of Tuesday’s high profile and crucial legislative elections, which are seen as a crucial bellwether ahead of the 2024 showdowns

Elite American universities receiving billions in federal funds see rise in antisemitism: ‘Gamed the tax code’

Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, which have been under fire for their response to antisemitic events on campus, receive billions in federal funds, an analysis found.

Navy SEAL veteran, Senate candidate urges Biden to ‘stop enabling Iran’ as Israel fights for ‘survival’

Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy overemphasized the need to support Israel during its war against Hamas and said he does not support combining aid to Israel with Ukraine.

Mike Johnson bucks trend of House speakers owning high-dollar assets: ‘Man of the people’

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is facing criticism for having a financial portfolio similar to most Americans after his predecessors owned hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets.

House Republican bill targets Biden’s progressive Climate Corps plan

A new House GOP bill is targeting President Biden's plan for a civilian climate corps.

The polite trick-or-treater theory of building a working society

Let me set the scene. Last night, Halloween, a little after 6 p.m., in Manhattan, outside my house.

Review of Loki, Season Two: Marvel’s multiverse strains under its own complexity

Disney’s enormous TV and film production schedule often makes me wonder who its intended audience is. For decades, the answer would have been “children” or “families.” But Disney’s purchase of 21st Century Fox and its decision to take the Marvel and Star Wars franchises in darker directions means it is now making quite a lot that seems more geared for adults, including, most obviously, the R-rated Deadpool franchise.

Country roads took them home

When the celebrated country musician Hank Williams died on New Year’s Day in 1953 in a car on his way to a performance in Canton, Ohio, he had been traveling from Charleston, West Virginia, on U.S. Route 19, one of a series of north-south arteries that had conveyed millions of struggling Southern white people from Appalachia to new lives in the industrial Upper Midwest. This “Hillbilly Highway,” as historian Max Fraser calls it, was a dense network of interstate roads that couriered the job-seekers northward. It played a pivotal role in facilitating one of the most consequential migrations in American history.

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