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They Didn’t Have to Do This

By Jonathan Chait

By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.

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A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading

By Erin Sagen

Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.

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Vonnegut and the Bomb

By Noah Hawley

How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke

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A Big, Bad, Very Ugly Bill

By Annie Lowrey

“Beautiful” it is not.

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