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Democrats took both chambers on Tuesday. Republicans can read the loss as the usual midterm penalty on a lame-duck president or as a structural failure that left the party led by Trump, and each reading points to different options.
Two students sit at two pianos down the hall from each other, working on the same eight bars. The first has the metronome at 72 and has played the passage, by the tally marks penciled in the margin, forty-one times […]
In March 2025 a travel writer, Simon Buckby, published a guide called “The Arabian Peninsula is waking up and opening up.” The whole peninsula was opening, it said, except Yemen, “still stuck in civil war.” A single tourist visa for […]
Texas’s 15th Congressional District runs from the eastern suburbs of San Antonio down to McAllen, and the Texas Tribune has called it Republicans’ greatest success story with Texas Latino voters. Monica De La Cruz won it by fourteen points in […]
When competence stops being scarce, who gets to hold the capability?
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