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President Trump speech to joint session of Congress, 2025

The State of the Union Shouldn’t Be Self-care for Presidents

By: Jeff Shesol · 02/07/2023
The State of the Union address is often described, charitably, as a tradition. What it has become, really, is a nostalgia act — an aging
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The Secret to Wealth Is Giving Up Pointless Expenses (and Other Lessons from My Twenty-Eight-Dollar Book)

By: Chandler Dean & Sarah Gruen · 01/24/2023
More Americans than ever are struggling to make ends meet. Is this because wages have remained stagnant while expenses creep up? Could it be that
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Metropolitan Diary: Barney Greengrass

By: Sarah Gruen · 01/08/2023
Sarah Gruen quiets down on her first pilgrimage to a New York institution. Dear Diary: One Saturday this past
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When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others

By: Jeff Shesol · 12/12/2022
Jefferson Cowie’s powerful and sobering new history, Freedom’s Dominion, traces the close association between the rhetoric of liberty in an Alabama county and the politics
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If I Emailed My Parents Like Democrats Email Me

By: Chandler Dean & Sarah Gruen · 10/25/2022
SUBJECT: I’m DESPERATE, Mom Mom, did you see this?!? FIRST: I got a $300 traffic ticket because I forgot about alternate
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