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The biggest risk our democracy faces this election is whether the votes cast will even matter. Any number of scenarios...

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The very last shot of Jesse Eisenberg’s new film, A Real Pain, is identical to its first: a close-up of...

Less than a week before Election Day, Donald Trump last night called for one of his prominent political adversaries to...

The approach of the presidential election has people in both parties in doomscrolling mode. Some Republicans are creating elaborate conspiracy...

Since September 29, when the smell of chlorine first began to waft over metro Atlanta, Georgia residents’ lives have been...

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In Jilly Cooper’s world, men conquer, women sigh, the sun shines perpetually on pale-gold Cotswolds mansions with bluebells in bloom,...

Everything about the staging of Kamala Harris’s “closing argument” rally Wednesday night on the White House Ellipse seemed designed to...