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What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.

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Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.

Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.

Food safety in America is under attack.

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If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke.