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The folly of a new constitution

A progressive experiment goes off the rails

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Bonnie Kristian

Juneteenth gets its due

A GOP trap.

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The GOP sets an infrastructure trap

Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson.

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Correcting the record about Jim Crow

Speed Reads

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Late night hosts pan Marjorie Taylor Greene's Holocaust apology

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Trump's team tried hard, failed to prove Wuhan lab-leak theory

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Chicago bus driver jumped into Lake Michigan every day for a year

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Report: Trump Organization CFO could face charges as soon as this summer

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21 House Republicans vote against honoring Jan. 6 police officers

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Tensions high after Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas sites in Gaza

Politics

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The 'Critical Race Theory' bogeyman

Donald Trump.

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Briefing

The return of the Trump rally

Mitch McConnell and Stephen Breyer.

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McConnell's memo to Breyer

The Capitol.

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Why a 55-vote filibuster won't work

Houses.

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Rethinking real estate

How the insane housing market is a product of our policy choices

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Culture

Stephen Colbert

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Last Night on Late Night

Stephen Colbert gleefully returns to a live studio audience

Annie Murphy.

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The revenge of the sitcom wife

In the Heights.

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Trump lyric cut from In the Heights

Raven Leilani.

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Feature

6 book recommendations from Raven Leilani

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Jeva Lange

A brain.

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Feature

The lost art of memorization

A flapper.

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Opinion

What will be the flapper dress of the Roaring 2020s?

Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton.

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Analysis

Dakota Johnson, queen of sighs

Robert Pattinson.

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Feature

You don't want to be in a movie with Robert Pattinson

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The Supreme Court.

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Bonnie Kristian

SCOTUS deals blow to sentencing reform

Chip Roy.

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2.Criti-schism

GOP lawmakers struggle after criticizing Trump

Political Cartoon.

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7 toons about the Dems' Joe Manchin problem

Christiane Amanpour

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4.'listen to your bodies'

CNN's Christiane Amanpour diagnosed with ovarian cancer

5.Sounds dope

Bernie Sanders wants to know if cannabis reporter is 'stoned' right now

6.summer box office

In the Heights has a disappointing box office debut

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The 'Critical Race Theory' bogeyman

8.The big lie

Georgia election workers reportedly received a 'torrent' of threats

Cartoons

Celebrating 20 years of The Week

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

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Photos

The past 20 years, in 20 striking photos

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The world that Google, Facebook, and Twitter built

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Trevor Noah

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Last Night on Late Night

Late night hosts pan Marjorie Taylor Greene's Holocaust apology

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Wuhan Institute of Virology

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no smoking gun

Trump's team tried hard, failed to prove Wuhan lab-leak theory

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Dan O'Conor jumps into Lake Michigan.

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it wasn't all bad

Chicago bus driver jumped into Lake Michigan every day for a year

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Donald Trump, Allen Weisselberg, and Donald Trump Jr.

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investigations

Report: Trump Organization CFO could face charges as soon as this summer

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