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It's February 2021, just a few weeks into the Oprah Winfrey Administration, and, far from healing America's divides, it turns out that President Winfrey has only deepened them. Hundreds of thousands of Americans who had voted to re-elect President Donald Trump take to the streets in
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If you think President Donald Trump has an antagonistic relationship with the press now, just wait until his administration slaps a new 30% tax on newsprint. Seriously. That's the threat America's newspaper publishers are warning about, with the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration set
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In memory of the late William Safire, place your bets now on possibilities for the year ahead. Use the available choices or try writing in your own scenarios. Last year's iteration anticipated the Patriots Super Bowl victory, the stock market rally, President Donald Trump's Jerusalem move,
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Does the New York Times have to register with the government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? The act has been in the news lately in connection with the wide-ranging probe by special counsel Robert Mueller into foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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BOSTON — The federal indictment of a former Massachusetts state senator, Brian Joyce, gave some headline writers an opportunity to focus on the comic element of his alleged scheme. The Democratic politician pleaded not guilty. He was charged in part with having accepted 504 pounds of free coffee from a franchise
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What to make of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the legislation passed by the Senate at 1:36 a.m. the Saturday before last, by a 51 to 49 vote, with only Republicans in favor? Any final assessment has to await a conference with the House of Representatives that
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The most jarring image of the past couple weeks appeared in the New York Times, alongside a surprisingly positive profile of 33-year-old conservative pundit Benjamin Shapiro. It was a photograph of Mr. Shapiro's supporters at the University of Utah. One of the students was wearing a "Reagan
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What is it about that photograph of the U.S. Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and his wife, Louise Linton, holding a sheet of dollar bills that has so captivated America's journalistic elites? The chief fashion critic of the New York Times, Vanessa Friedman, fingered Ms. Linton's