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Erik Kabik / MediaPunch / IPX / AP Did Bill Clinton See This Coming?
On his 73rd birthday, the former MVP of the Democratic Party has been sidelined—perhaps for good.
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Christy Bowe / Corbis / Getty Democrats of All Ages Agree on Nothing
How did Democratic Party icons like Barack Obama come to symbolize all the problems of yore?
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Walter McBride / Contributor The Man Who Transformed Broadway
The legendary producer Hal Prince prevailed through changing tastes and times, and helped pioneer the creation of the “concept musical.”
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Maveric Pictures / Mike Blake / Kamil Krzaczynski ... Democrats Search for Their Own ‘Make America Great Again’
Top candidates such as Elizabeth Warren tried to avoid wonky policy proposals and focus on big, sweeping messages last night.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Robert Mueller and the Tyranny of ‘Optics’
The commentariat’s focus on performance over substance is the kryptonite of the modern media age.
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Patrick Semansky / AP / Katie Martin / ... Adam Schiff Is Back From the Wilderness
The House Intelligence Committee chairman opens up about the Mueller investigation.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Trump’s Greatest Contribution to American Politics
The fight on the House floor about Trump’s racist tweets illustrates, yet again, how singularly unprepared Washington is for a president like him.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Living in California Is Living on the Edge
For residents, the recent earthquakes are a reminder that the state is always poised on the brink of disaster.
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Andy Clark / Reuters We’re All Living in the World Ross Perot Made
The Texas billionaire promised voters they could take their country back, showing candidates how to ride the waves of voter anger that still roil American politics.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Nobody Knows What to Do About L.A.’s Homelessness Crisis
Ahead of the first presidential debates, the nationwide squeeze on affordable housing has barely registered on the campaign trail.
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Henry Griffin / AP The Old Senate Is Hardwired Into Joe Biden
The body he was elected to in 1972 required even the bitterest rivals to maintain a veneer of civility. But the country has long moved on from that brand of politics.
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Hillery Smith Garrison / AP What Nancy Pelosi Learned From the Clinton Impeachment
Interviews with the House speaker’s old friends and colleagues offer a window into her reluctance to pull the pin on a political grenade.
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Courtesy of Tina Whatcott Echeverria What Keeps Hollywood’s Oldest Restaurant Running
One hundred years after it first opened, the Musso & Frank Grill is mixing the old and the new with verve.
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Associated Press Doris Day, the People’s Actor
The late film icon’s ordinariness was most extraordinary, and the secret of her success.
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Associated Press The Three-Letter Word That Triggered a Revolution
Fifty-five years ago, a congressman made a single addition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that changed everything.
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Dan Steinberg / Invision / AP Why Hollywood Writers Are Firing the Agents They Love
The conflict comes at a time when economic realities are changing for both parties in the digital era, but the tension dates back to 1962.
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Little Fang Oklahoma! Gets a Dark, Brilliant Remake
More than 75 years after the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical debuted, a daring new production seeks to re-create the frisson of the original—with some changes.
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Eric Liebowitz / FX Moving Past the ‘Singular Genius’ Version of the Bob Fosse Story
The new FX limited series Fosse/Verdon explores the director-choreographer’s complicated relationship with the dancer Gwen Verdon.
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Evan Vucci / Associated Press California Is at War With the Trump White House
Governor Gavin Newsom called President Trump’s border wall and immigrant bashing “a national disgrace.”
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Bettmann / Getty The 1969 Academy Awards Captured a Shifting Moment in Movie History
Fifty years ago, the Oscars showed old Hollywood giving way to the new—in ways that feel strikingly resonant today.
