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Taxpayers pick up the tab for police brutality
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Does likability still matter in politics?
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Number of countries in which a citizen can be penalized for not voting:

19

Genes are responsible for an estimated 53 percent of an eligible voter’s likelihood of voting and for an estimated 46 percent of a voter’s “partisan intensity.”

Pittsburgh protesters forced Trump’s motorcade to take a detour; “Whitey” Bulger murdered in prison; Kentucky Fried Chicken paid the family of a child named after Colonel Sanders

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Podcast — November 8, 2018, 2:30 pm

The Tragedy of Ted Cruz

Is any victory great enough for the man we all love to hate?

Weekly Review — November 6, 2018, 1:08 pm

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Pittsburgh protesters forced Trump’s motorcade to take a detour; “Whitey” Bulger murdered in prison; Kentucky Fried Chicken paid the family of a child named after Colonel Sanders

Art, Monday Gallery — November 5, 2018, 12:27 pm

Bingo Beethoven and Promenade, collages by John Ashbery, whose work is on view this week at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, in New York City.

© The Estate of John Ashbery. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City

Publisher's Note — November 3, 2018, 12:02 am

All Bets Are Off

“I recommend neither the assertions of journalists and pollsters nor big headlines about terror attacks, murders, or caravans of desperate people as a basis for predicting the outcome of the midterm elections.”

Postcard — October 31, 2018, 2:08 pm

The Haunting of Western Pennsylvania

Groan if you’ve heard this one before: the Halloween boom in the Rust Belt

Weekly Review — October 31, 2018, 10:04 am

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Jair Bolsonaro wins; the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history; a robot gets a visa

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