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Why McCarthy’s Slog to Speaker Could Mean Dysfunction Ahead in the House

The top Republican already had to work with a tiny majority and an emboldened right flank. Concessions he made to…

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Speaker Quest Reveals McCarthy’s Tenuous Grip on an Unruly Majority

WASHINGTON — As dawn broke after yet another day of Representative Kevin McCarthy of California trying and failing to become…

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9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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Good Fantasy Writing Is Pure Magic

All too often clunky dialogue breaks the spell of CGI-heavy TV epics. To be reminded what language can do by…

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SZA Spends a Third Week Atop the Album Chart With ‘SOS’

Mariah Carey led an avalanche of Christmas songs on Billboard’s singles chart as holiday music lingered into the last week…

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Athletes and Fans Pray for Damar Hamlin After On-Field Collapse

Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey joined a chorus of voices on Twitter offering prayers for Hamlin. “We are all…

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Anthony Fauci Quietly Shocked Us All

The first time I met Dr. Anthony Fauci was at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal during the summer of…

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Have I Been Good or Bad This Year? Here’s Some New Math.

Here we are at the end of another year, and as humans are wont to do around this time, I’ve…

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Xi and Putin Meet Again, Two Strongmen in a Weak Moment

Russia is isolated by its invasion of Ukraine and needs China more than ever. But China, facing a Covid crisis,…

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The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs

Two weeks ago, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey passionately advocated in a blog post the view that neither Twitter nor…

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