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It's the boring stuff, the Russians are learning, that kills you in the end.

Thomas E. Ricks

Mar 13

And other tales of America’s concierge industry.

Michael Mechanic

Apr 23, 2021

The New York Times rehabilitates Valerie Solanas.

Jun 26, 2020

Man bites dog, quitting Substack to work for magazine.

Aug 30, 2021

On pathologizing the pain of loss.

Mar 19

President Ulysses S. Grant did it, and George W. Bush, and the Constitution would seem to encourage it.

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Jan 19, 2021

Remembering Marian Jane Noah (1929-2021) and counting my Brood X cicada cycles.

May 19, 2021

Harvard's Eric Nelson stokes a loopy monarchist movement in America.

Mar 22, 2021

A Backbencher investigation.

Mar 14, 2021

The U.S. and Russia let lapse a web of treaties, agreements, and understandings that kept the Cold War cool. Time to bring them back.

Mar 16

A new tracking poll indicates fully 25 percent of the people who voted for Trump just two months ago want him gone before January 20.

Jan 9, 2021

If Donald Trump believes in anything, it's sexual freedom.

Sep 23, 2020

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