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The right-wing scammers who paved the way for Trump

A new book shows how conservative grift started long before branded bibles and $400 sneakers.

The Western visuals of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, decoded

Country music uses the West as a synecdoche for America. Beyoncé is here to disrupt that.

How the war in Gaza has gone differently than expected — and how it hasn’t

Six months in.

Americans are hooked on the fantasy of financial liberation

What multilevel marketing schemes are really selling.

The terrifying and awesome power of solar eclipses

Eclipses inspire awe, create opportunities for science — and cause angst among energy-grid operators.

The Talented Mr. Ripley is a perfect striver gothic. The Netflix adaptation is lifeless.

Ripley fails to capture what makes Highsmith’s book so compelling.

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Trump has set up a perfect avenue for potential corruption

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What is “fetal personhood”?

The legal definition tearing the anti-abortion movement apart.

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Biden is doing everything to reach Latinos. Trump is barely trying.

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We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them.

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