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A saga ends
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The Apotheosis of Taylor Swift
USA Today finally hires its Taylor Swift reporter
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The Political Currents Mailbag, Fall Edition
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Pretending Problems Don't Exist Won't Make Them Disappear
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Where Democrats Lost
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Eric Adams and the Weapon of Identity
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What the YIMBYs Never Understand
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The SHSAT Discourse is Broken
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The Israel Impasse in America
Zionists and anti-Zionists dig in
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The Crumbling of Eric Adams
How far can he fall?
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Art and the Dinner Party
On the culture we reach for, and the culture we want
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It's Time for a Mailbag
Hit me with your best questions
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Borat's Censorship Quest
Sacha Baron Cohen's pleas to TikTok
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Is Israel Actually a Net Negative for DSA?
Thinking through the political implications of the Israel-Hamas War, one month in
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Can't the Horse Race Journalists Start Speculating on Trump's Convictions?
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