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The trick to avoiding fighting over politics

I was taking a walk through my neighborhood with a friend yesterday. We were doing our usual “cigar walk,” during which we smoke cigars and stroll along the streets of Greenwich Village.

Biden uses Trump’s own words against him in bid to recapture this major voting block for Dems in 2024

Former President Donald Trump's own words are being used against him by the Biden-Harris campaign in a bid to win back support from union workers.

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...

Johnson’s first weeks as speaker marked by GOP infighting – and some victories

Months-old fractures have continued to widen several weeks into Rep. Mike Johnson’s speakership, despite scoring some key victories so early in his tenure.

Senate, House headed for showdown over defense bill

Sen. Roger Wicker secured a crucial House-Senate conference for the National Defense Authorization Act amid looming deadlines, potentially shaping crucial military policies.

Experts raise alarm after Biden strikes agreement with China to shut down fossil fuels

Energy experts are raising the alarm on the Biden administration's agreement with China to shut down fossil fuel power in favor of green energy in the coming years.

Biden admin says it can revoke visas of Hamas supporters as Republicans urge action

The Biden administration says it has "broad" authority to be able to revoke the visas of those foreign nationals who support terrorist groups like Hamas.

Could evangelical leader’s endorsement upend Trump’s massive lead before Iowa’s caucus?

The leader of the Family Leader, a top Iowa evangelical group, is likely to endorse in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race, where Trump remains the commanding front-runner.

Romanticizing terror

Jamal El-Haj is a Social Democratic member of Parliament for Malmö, Sweden’s third-biggest city. In 2018, he called Israel an “apartheid state.” Rather than censure him, Magdalena Andersson, the Social Democratic prime minister, appointed El-Haj to the foreign affairs committee. Before we laugh too hard at the wacky Scandi socialists, remember that House Democrats did much the same with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in January 2023.

If only The Killer were silent

In a country in which individualism sometimes seems to blot out all other values, it was perhaps inevitable that our movie screens were for so long dominated by solemn, solitary Western stars. During the first half of the last century, audiences embraced the meanness of John Wayne, the pinched reserve of Randolph Scott, the enigmatic ambivalence of Clint Eastwood, and the inscrutable heroism of Alan Ladd. The public understood that these men’s antisocial qualities were inseparable from their guts and professionalism.

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