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Are we the Sea Peoples?
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A look back at #MeToo
Matt and Jerusalem on the legacy of the movement
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They’ve had it up to here with the NIMBYs
From Massachusetts to California to Texas, officials and investors are increasingly overcoming local resistance to build more housing.
 • Halina Bennet
Republicans are in too little disarray
With Trump historically unpopular, why isn’t there more infighting?
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It’s primary day in Michigan.
 • Halina Bennet
Mamdani’s not the first to try to bring cheap groceries to N.Y.C.
Walmart versus the stationary bandits
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Democrats are winning the polls but losing the plot
Primary voters are far more focused on fighting each other than on fighting the G.O.P.
 • Halina Bennet
Democrats should seize the chance to end the filibuster
A national voter ID law is nothing to fear.
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag
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