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What’s the Matter With Ohio?
For many years, Ohio has been thought of as a bellwether state: With rare exceptions, whoever won Ohio in a presidential election won the nation as a whole. But in 2020, Donald Trump won Ohio by about eight points even as Joe Biden led the national ...
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It Hurts to See Biden Imitating Trump on Trade
Waving the flag as he heads into election season, President Biden is opposing the acquisition of U.S. Steel, a once-great steel maker headquartered in Pittsburgh, by a bigger and stronger Japanese company, Nippon Steel. “I told our steel workers I ...
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TikTok Could Disappear but the Problems It Poses Remain
America is politically polarized. But there is an issue on which both sides agree: We need more privacy and TikTok should not be banned. A record 72 percent of Americans want “more government regulation” of what companies can do with their data ...
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Arts
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Focuses on Forgotten Figures
An inaugural digital exhibition, “Becoming Visible,” traces the paths of five notable women whose stories have been largely erased.
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Four Ways of Looking at Christian Nationalism
Amid all the talk about the potential influence of Christian nationalism in a second Trump administration, and in the country as a whole, the phrase’s popularity has far outrun any coherent definition. My colleague David French made an effort to ...
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Why Authoritarians Like Saddam Hussein Confound U.S. Presidents
America committed its worst foreign policy mistake of the post-Cold War era when it invaded Iraq in 2003 to disarm Saddam Hussein of his supposed weapons of mass destruction. The war that followed exacted an appalling price in Iraqi and American ...
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The Mystery of White Rural Rage
Will technological progress lead to mass unemployment? People have been asking that question for two centuries, and the actual answer has always ended up being no. Technology eliminates some jobs, but it has always generated enough new jobs to offset ...
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What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?
If you’re alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism, the single worst thing you can do is define it too broadly. If you define it too broadly, then you’re telling millions of ordinary churchgoing citizens that the importation of their religious ...
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The Florida Fraudster and the Russian ‘Killer’
When I covered George H.W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 1988, he was so eager to wrap himself in the American flag that he took us to a New Jersey flag factory. That way, he could claim that the G.O.P. was “on the American side” while caressing ...
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What the News and the Pews Have in Common
In the past few weeks, both The Atlantic and The New Yorker used the phrase “extinction-level event” to headline stories about the fate of the media business. Both pieces, one by Paul Farhi and the other by Clare Malone, emphasized the dire ...
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