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Joe Manchin.

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Betraying his own state?

West Virginia's coal industry is doomed. Joe Manchin wants to take the whole state down with it.

Colin Powell

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Daily briefing

10 things you need to know today: October 19, 2021

Colin Powell dies from COVID-19 complications, the Justice Department asks the Supreme Court to block Texas' abortion ban, and more

A donkey and an elephant.

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Do Democrats really want to save democracy?

Because they aren't acting like it

The NATO symbol.

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The madness of expanding NATO

This is a door the Biden administration ought to keep closed

Speed Reads

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Katie Couric grilled about RBG interview

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Terry McAuliffe has a friend in Carole King

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Why Meghan McCain quit The View

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YouTube sued for not enforcing animal abuse ban

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Watch Colin Powell and Joe Biden drag race their Corvettes in 2016

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House Jan. 6 committee dismisses Trump lawsuit as delay tactic, obstruction

Politics

Colin Powell.

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Colin Powell at his worst — and most human

Colin Powell.

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Colin Powell's death is not proof of vaccine failure

President Biden.

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Biden's insulting sales pitch

Bernie Sanders.

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Right message, wrong messenger?

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Academic freedom, attacked left and right

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

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

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Briefing

The supply chain fiasco

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?

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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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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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4.probes

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.'his street cred went up'

Where outing the GOP lawmakers at Jan. 6 proved futile

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20 years of history through The Week's covers

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