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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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Protesters demonstrate against Dave Chappelle special

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The political factors frustrating 3 retiring House Democrats

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Manchin denies threatening to quit the Democratic Party

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Paris Hilton pushes for youth treatment center reform

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Parkland survivor speaks out following gunman's guilty plea

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Kyrsten Sinema's possible long game

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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Jan. 6 riot.

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1.'his street cred went up'

Where outing the GOP lawmakers at Jan. 6 proved futile

Grocery store tomatoes.

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2.inflation nation

Republicans see inflation as Democrats' downfall

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry.

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3.see you in court

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

Joe Manchin.

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4.the manchin problem

Joe Manchin's 'arbitrary centrism'

5.Help Wanted

The American 'Great Resignation' by the numbers

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Colin Powell at his worst — and most human

7.Briefing

The supply chain fiasco

8.'It's an experiment'

Sicilian Catholic diocese bans godparents

Celebrating 20 years of The Week

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20 years of history through The Week's covers

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