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Reuters I Failed the Covington Catholic Test
Next time there’s a viral story, I’ll wait for more facts to emerge.
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Kolesov Sergei / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What People Actually Say Before They Die
Insights into the little-studied realm of last words
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Paul Sequeira / Getty The Whitewashing of King’s Assassination
The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The President’s Hostage Attempt Is Going Miserably Wrong
Once again, Trump tried and failed to strike a deal on Saturday.
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Benjamin Lowy / Getty / The Atlantic Impeach Donald Trump
Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs.
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Don Cravens / The Life Images Collection / ... Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Nancy Pelosi Is Winning
She beat George W. Bush on Social Security privatization, and she’ll beat Trump on the wall.
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The Mayor of Covington, Kentucky, Explains What His City Stands For
[Please see Updates at the end of this post.] I don’t know who the young man in the MAGA hat…
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump and Cohen May Have Discussed the Moscow Project. ‘So What?’
Rudy Giuliani, on the Sunday shows, says the president never told Michael Cohen to lie about pursuing Trump Tower Moscow during the 2016 campaign.
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Pete Ryan What Life Is Like When Corn Is off the Table
Corn lurks in so many surprising places, from table salt to apples to IV bags.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Consequences of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Canonization
The civil-rights leader is now celebrated as a modern founding father, a celebration that gives those who oppose his policy agenda a claim to his legacy.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: My Boyfriend Got Me a Ring for Christmas, but He Doesn't Want to Get Married
We’ve been dating for a while and have talked about marriage, but I’m worried that he’s still scared of commitment.
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Terray Sylvester / Reuters What the Camp Fire Revealed
Two months after disaster struck, the recovery in Paradise, California, is harder for some than for others.
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Christopher Furlong / Getty Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes
Strategists considered sacrificing older pilots to patrol the skies in flying reactors. An Object Lesson.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Elizabeth Warren’s Early Stroke of Genius
The senator from Massachusetts announced she was running for president on New Year’s Eve—and then had the field largely to herself.
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Leon Neal / Getty Amazon Ruined Online Shopping
America’s largest internet store is so big, and so bewildering, that buyers often have no idea what they’re going to get.
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Clarence Williams / L.A. Times How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend
The story of Dr. Rapp
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