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Larry Elder.

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Why Democrats smell blood

They're looking to apply the California victory formula to the rest of the country — and it just might work

Mitch McConnell.

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W. James Antle III

The method to McConnell's debt ceiling madness

Larry Elder.

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Why crying election fraud backfires

Sci-fi art.

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Let science fiction be weird again

The genre has become technically accomplished, deeply serious, and utterly boring

Speed Reads

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Democrats' communication problem

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How Jeopardy! will handle its host problem for the rest of the year

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Consumer Reports brutally reviews Tesla's steering 'yoke'

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Piers Morgan signs Fox deal after controversial Meghan comments

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The Capitol fence returns ahead of Sept. 18 rally

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Putin reveals the Kremlin is awash in COVID-19 cases

Politics

A donkey.

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A warning sign in a blowout

President Biden.

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Biden's booster headache

An I Voted sticker.

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Will COVID stalk the GOP in 2024?

George W. Bush.

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Michael Arceneaux

Trump is right about Bush

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Christopher Nolan.

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Tenet, round 2

Rod Dreher.

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The New Yorker hears out a supposedly mortal enemy

Pikachu.

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Addison Del Mastro

Pokémon GO and the technocratic authoritarian future

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daily double

How Jeopardy! will handle its host problem for the rest of the year

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Business & Tech

American Gothic.

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Is SpaceX's Inspiration4 really an inspiration?

Carbon capture.

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Briefing

Can carbon capture technology save the planet?

A stove.

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The case against gas stoves

A Tesla.

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yoke's up

Consumer Reports brutally reviews Tesla's steering 'yoke'

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Berman and Kinzinger.

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1.'snowflake'

Kinzinger calls Trump 'one of the weakest men' he's 'ever seen'

Stickers.

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High stakes in California

Leon Bennett/Getty Images

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3.'what have I done in the last three months'

Emmys host Cedric the Entertainer hoping 'not to get canceled'

Galveston in Hurricane Nicholas

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4.Hurricane Nicholas

Hurricane Nicholas makes landfall in Texas, threatening Houston

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Did Theranos Lose Afghanistan?

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How Newsom ran away with the recall

7.rabbit hole

Why Laurence Fishburne isn't in the Matrix trailer

8.Last night on late night

Late night hosts take sides in the Biden-GOP vaccine mandate war

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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if a tree falls in a forest...

Democrats' communication problem

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daily double

How Jeopardy! will handle its host problem for the rest of the year

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A Tesla.

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yoke's up

Consumer Reports brutally reviews Tesla's steering 'yoke'

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Larry Elder.

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Why crying election fraud backfires

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