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American workers are fed up

The working class is restless. Can unions begin a new era in the fight for workers' rights?

Vaccination.

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Bonnie Kristian

Should the CDC hide unverified vaccine data?

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Academic freedom, attacked left and right

The university has a unique mission. Does anyone remember what it is?

Kyrsten Sinema.

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Kyrsten Sinema's poll numbers should terrify her

Speed Reads

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Protesters yell obscenities as Biden meets with preschoolers at daycare center

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Sicilian Catholic diocese bans godparents

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78 arrested for blocking traffic in last day of D.C. fossil-fuel protests

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British lawmakers gather to mourn slain MP David Amess

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Joe Manchin reportedly killed Biden clean-energy proposal

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Jon Stewart asks: 'What's more Hitler?' COVID or vaccine mandates?

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Academic freedom, attacked left and right

European politicians.

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The European right is in retreat

Vaccination.

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Bonnie Kristian

Should the CDC hide unverified vaccine data?

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Democratic disaster in Virginia

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Culture

Adele.

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An ode to Adele's hands

A gardener.

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Bonnie Kristian

The soil of fairy tales

A scale.

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The upside of urban decline

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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How censoring RBG adds to our misinformation problem

Cartoons

Fantasy.

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The 4 fantasies dominating American politics

Our political flights from the rigors of reality

Business & Tech

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Help Wanted

The American 'Great Resignation' by the numbers

President Biden.

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Biden's Christmas crunch

President Biden.

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Biden's plan to snoop in your bank account

Elon Musk.

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Will Elon Musk turn Texas blue?

Industry.

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The case for spending our way through inflation

Eggs.

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The answer to inflation isn't more government spending

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Who are America's peers?

Brett Kavanaugh and a protester.

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The consequences of judicializing abortion

Critical Race Theory.

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Losing the education wars

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Let science fiction be weird again

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