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Mike Johnson keeps the speaker’s gavel after Donald Trump persuades holdouts to switch their vote. And we are days away...

The dinner was to be at Galina’s apartment, in the East 70s. She had been watching a lot of Visconti...

This much you already know: Many Americans are alone, friendless, isolated, undersexed, sick of online dating, glued to their couches,...

Donald Trump wasted little time after the election in claiming an “unprecedented and powerful mandate” and floating a series of...

“Freedom” is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock and roll songs. How we love to free-associate...

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The success of President-Elect Donald Trump’s legislative agenda will depend on whether Republicans can close ranks in Congress. They nearly...

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