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President Biden.

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Will Biden publish the documents?

Why the only right response to Trump's executive privilege lawsuit is to publish the Jan. 6 documents

A pack of Facebook.

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Facebook prepares to use Big Tobacco's 1 weird trick

A Biden voter.

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Michael Arceneaux

Is Biden taking Black voters for granted?

The president is failing some of his most ardent supporters. Here's what he could do better.

Mitt Romney.

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Will Democrats give Mitt Romney a call?

Why Romney might just be a better partner than Manchin or Sinema

Speed Reads

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Retired FBI boss steps up to help community with school bus driver shortage

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Trevor Noah ribs the cops and firefighters freaking out about vaccine mandates

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Texas couple weds at the train station where they met

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Trump announces deal to launch his own social media platform in 2022

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Bill Clinton says he is 'doing great' after hospital stay

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Doctors warn climate change is now 'the greatest global health threat facing the world'

Politics

Donald Trump.

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Memento mori, Donald Trump

President Biden and Donald Trump.

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Good news for Trump, bad news for Biden

Wang Huning.

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Why America needs her foreign critics

Joe Manchin.

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Betraying his own state?

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The NATO symbol.

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The madness of expanding NATO

This is a door the Biden administration ought to keep closed

Culture

A television.

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Stop letting COVID infect TV

Brian Cox.

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Succession seems to think it's still 2019

A gardener.

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Bonnie Kristian

The soil of fairy tales

A scale.

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The upside of urban decline

Cartoons

Fantasy.

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The 4 fantasies dominating American politics

Our political flights from the rigors of reality

Business & Tech

The pledge of allegiance.

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Facebook can be its own country when it gets an army

President Biden.

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Biden's insulting sales pitch

A container ship.

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Briefing

The supply chain fiasco

Elon Musk.

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Will Elon Musk turn Texas blue?

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Samuel Goldman

America.

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Opinion

Who are America's peers?

Brett Kavanaugh and a protester.

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Opinion

The consequences of judicializing abortion

Critical Race Theory.

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Opinion

Losing the education wars

Sci-fi art.

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Opinion

Let science fiction be weird again

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London, England.

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1.keeping watch

Officials keeping 'close watch' on Delta subvariant

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry.

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2.see you in court

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry indicted on charges of lying to federal investigators

Police truck drives in Haiti

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3.Dirty business

Haitian gang asks $17 million ransom for abducted U.S. and Canadian missionaries

Miami Beach police officers.

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4.public safety

Assaults against law enforcement officers rose in 2020

5.state of play

What's on the chopping block in spending package negotiations

6.Help Wanted

The American 'Great Resignation' by the numbers

7.'his street cred went up'

Where outing the GOP lawmakers at Jan. 6 proved futile

8.'we will be ready'

What makes Biden's vaccination plan for young kids different

Celebrating 20 years of The Week

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A short history of The Week

Week covers.

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20 years of history through The Week's covers

September 11.

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The past 20 years, in 20 striking photos

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