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Suddenly, Communists Are Everywhere
Karl Marx wrote that political actors often borrow the language and symbols of earlier struggles to wage their own battles. So perhaps he would have been unsurprised to hear the Trump administration resurrect the political rhetoric of the Cold War fight against Marxism. President Trump, at Wheeler High School in the Atlanta suburbs earlier this…
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As one family struggles to open a Chinatown grocery, neighborhood food scarcity persists
Chinatown has always been a North Star in Jessica Wang’s life. Growing up in the San Gabriel Valley with her parents, both Taiwanese immigrants, Wang remembers regularly attending First Chinese Baptist Church on Yale Street with her family. Then, after church, they’d eat. “I knew we were gonna have dim sum,” Wang said, “or amazing,…
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Trump’s arch to smack Arlington with years of construction noise beside active burials
A National Park Service assessment of President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch has identified 37 historic sites across Washington that would be harmed by the structure — and preservationists say that seems to be the point. The arch would rise taller than the city’s own height limits allow and more than twice as high…
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We have to talk Ariana Grande’s gaunt figure is
Over the last three years, Ariana Grande has shrunk before our eyes. And we need to talk about it, no matter how uncomfortable it might make us feel to pick apart a person’s body. Because hundreds of millions of people across the world follow Grande on social media, many of them young, impressionable girls —…
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The secret to ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s’ record-breaking box office is love, not spectacle
With the biggest global opening weekend in history, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is cleaning up at the box office in a manner that left “The Odyssey” spitting sand. (Relatively speaking; “The Odyssey” also had a strong worldwide debut and is on track to become the third R-rated film to hit the billion-dollar mark.) But while…
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‘One-two blow’ wallops MAGA candidate as election prospects grow increasingly dire: report
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his bid for Senate were hit with some “troubling signs” Tuesday after a new poll showed him trailing his Democratic opponent, potentially paving the way for a Democrat to win a statewide election in the Lone Star State for the first time in more than 30 years, Axios reported.…
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How the royals will mark Meghan Markle’s 45th birthday amid feud — and which family members could snub the duchess
Some royal family members will likely acknowledge Meghan Markle’s 45th birthday, while others may give her the cold shoulder amid her ongoing estrangement from her in-laws. Prince Harry’s dad, King Charles III, will very likely send his birthday wishes to the Duchess of Sussex on her big day Tuesday, royal commentator Tom Sykes exclusively told…
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L.A. is actually bikeable — and one cyclist is riding every street to prove it
It’s a few minutes after 10 a.m. on a recent morning and the thermometer is closing in on 95 degrees, but Marc Papas isn’t fazed. “The heat doesn’t bother me much,” he said, unloading his bicycle — a blue and yellow 1989 Trek 400 — from the trunk of his car on a side street…
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Trump ‘flat out embarrassed’ as pet project debacle spirals out of control: MS NOW
President Donald Trump’s obsession with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has reached a new low as he now has members of his administration fighting each other over it. On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Jonathan Lemire called the fight between US Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum “embarrassing” for all — and mostly…
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Get Used to High Gas Prices
Donald Trump’s approval rating is abysmally low for many reasons, but one of the most important is undoubtedly the price of gas. Trump’s decision in February to go to war with Iran sent gas prices soaring. Since then, the average price of gas in the United States has not dropped below $3.50 a gallon, even…