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Colin Powell.

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Colin Powell at his worst — and most human

A bullhorn.

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Democrats' religious hypocrisy is on display in Virginia

President Biden.

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Biden's insulting sales pitch

Colin Powell.

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Colin Powell's death is not proof of vaccine failure

Speed Reads

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Manchin and Sanders grin for the cameras as Manchin meets with progressives

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Stephen Colbert tries, fails to ignore the Trump 'pee tape' tease

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Rocker Randy Bachman reunited with guitar 45 years after it vanished

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Ex-spy Christopher Steele stands behind the thrust of his Trump-Russia dossier

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Diver discovers ancient sword that likely belonged to a crusader

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In one of his last interviews, Colin Powell spoke frankly about U.S. foreign policy

Politics

Bernie Sanders.

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Right message, wrong messenger?

A container ship.

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Briefing

The supply chain fiasco

A mortarboard.

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Academic freedom, attacked left and right

Vaccination.

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Bonnie Kristian

Should the CDC hide unverified vaccine data?

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A striking worker.

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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?

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Help Wanted

The American 'Great Resignation' by the numbers

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

President Biden.

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Biden's Christmas crunch

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Workers slow to return as Delta threat lingers

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?

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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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Baptism at Vatican

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1.'It's an experiment'

Sicilian Catholic diocese bans godparents

Halloween Kills

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2.purely and simply evil

Halloween Kills scores best pandemic debut for a horror film

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3.Help Wanted

The American 'Great Resignation' by the numbers

Oil spill in California.

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Investigators believe cargo ship dragged California oil pipeline in January

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Republicans see inflation as Democrats' downfall

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Locked out of a bank account

8.'Life is not just about interviewing kitties'

Madonna makes Jimmy Fallon sweat, remove coat in 'disturbed' interview

Celebrating 20 years of The Week

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A short history of The Week

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20 years of history through The Week's covers

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