Former Vice President Mike Pence participates in a CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall moderated by CNN's Dana Bash at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, June 7, 2023.
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Mike Pence is the candidate of true conservatives’ dreams
Sending migrants to blue states is a cruel stunt. How New York is making it crueler
Ozempic isn’t just a ‘wonder drug.’ It can also be a warning sign
The impact of PGA Tour-LIV Golf deal goes far beyond sports
The reemerging danger in the 2024 presidential primary
LGBTQ Americans are in a state of emergency – and we should all do more about it
Why Chris Christie has a plausible path to 2024 victory
Samantha’s cameo in the ‘Sex and the City’ sequel and the complexity of female friendships
America’s housing crisis is about to get worse

Global Views

People are evacuated from flooded areas in Kherson, Ukraine on June 7.
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The Ukraine dam disaster demands accountability
Jun 08, 2023
MADRID, SPAIN - MAY 24: Players of Real Madrid wear a jersey in support of Vinicius Junior of Real Madrid prior to the LaLiga Santander match between Real Madrid CF and Rayo Vallecano at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on May 24, 2023 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Images)
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Why I won’t take my young Black son to a European soccer game
Jun 01, 2023
Dmitry Medvedev during a press conference while on a visit to France in June, 2019.
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The Russian official with a none-too-subtle message from the boss
Jun 02, 2023
An online food deliveryman checks his mobile phone resting on a motorbike as he waits for orders during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi on April 27, 2020. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ambitious, tech-savvy and jobless. Why India’s young people could reshape the internet
Jun 02, 2023
Men are seen on the roof of a damaged multi-story apartment block following a drone attack in Moscow on May 30.
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The war on Russia’s doorstep just got uncomfortably close
May 31, 2023
ANKARA, TURKEY - MAY 29: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledges supporters at the presidential palace after winning reelection in a runoff on May 29, 2023 in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan was forced into a runoff when neither he nor his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People's Party (CHP), received more than 50 percent of the vote in the May 14 election. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Turkey’s strongman played the long game
May 29, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a press conference in Moscow on September 9, 2021. 
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Gaze down the list of 500 Americans banned from Russia, and a pattern emerges
May 23, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech on April 27, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The CIA is searching for anti-Putin Russians
May 25, 2023
Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and husband Reza Khandan hold up a protest button which reads: 'I oppose the mandatory hijab,' during their conversation over Zoom with film director Jeff Kaufman.
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A button, a love story, and an Iranian couple who will not be silenced
May 22, 2023
16 May 2023, Japan, Hiroshima: The Hiroshima Peace Memorial with the memorial (Kenothap) in the foreground and the Genbaku Dome in the background, is central location for the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. From May 19-21, Japan will host the G7 Summit. The "Group of Seven" (G7) is an informal alliance of leading industrialized nations. The members are Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada and the USA. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa (Photo by Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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It’s no accident world leaders are revisiting this site of nuclear devastation
May 17, 2023

Political Op-eds

The US Capitol dome is seen from the base of the Washington Monument as the sun rises on November 9, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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The biggest lesson from the debt ceiling fight
SE Cupp: Why Trump’s attack on Kayleigh McEnany backfired
How to end Trumpism
Why DeSantis is just as dangerous as Trump — or more
The biggest obstacle facing Nikki Haley’s campaign
What this ultra-MAGA attorney general could cost the Texas GOP
Trump has good reason to fear DeSantis
SE Cupp: I still can’t figure out DeSantis. Here’s why that worries me
A boast that could sink Trump
What angry Democrats can do about the spending cuts in the debt ceiling deal
The epicenter of anti-abortion America
The GOP has already won the debt ceiling standoff

Top issues

TOPSHOT - Taliban fighters escort veiled women marching during a pro-Taliban rally outside the Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul on September 11, 2021.
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Biden’s Afghanistan exit decision looks even worse a year later
A protester holds a placard outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the United States, June 24, 2022.
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I will never live in the marital shadows again
Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, testified on the first panel.
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What kind of justice will Ketanji Brown Jackson be?
Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, listens during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. The top U.S. military leaders yesterday pointed rare criticism at key decisions by Presidents Trump and Biden which they said undermined Afghanistan's military and made it harder for American troops to remain as the nation's government collapsed. Photographer: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Don’t shed any tears for Liz Cheney
The problem Joe Manchin highlighted is crucial for America’s future
How the Biden administration can ensure mask access to all Americans
What 2020’s pro-Trump phony electors means for 2024

Social commentary

Taylor Swift attends 'In Conversation With... Taylor Swift' during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 09, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario.
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‘Haters gonna hate,’ so Taylor Swift wants her fans to vote them out
Rose Zhang is a reminder to sports fans: Anything can happen
We’re thinking about teens and social media all wrong
Scottie Pippen’s attack on Michael Jordan says sad things about him – and us
We’ve reached a turning point with AI, expert says
The problem with executives who golf
The summer skill every kid in America should have
The good news about lower HIV infections comes with a big caveat
I hated ‘The Little Mermaid’
The ultimate ‘Succession’ lesson
I was in denial about my PTSD. Here’s how I’m finally dealing with it
How futuristic technology can help us honor WWII’s dead
The mistake Target made by removing Pride items
Ten Commandments and school prayer — an issue that’s not going away
This is the true legacy of ‘Succession’
A bag of fake oxycodone M30 tablets contain fentanyl.
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Fentanyl is killing a shocking number of young Americans. What the US can do to respond
Richard Roth and Samira Jafari in New York in June 2022.
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How a coworker’s email saved his life and renewed hers
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The real out-of-control college costs aren’t where you think
Kim Kardashian attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 92nd Oscars at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on February 9, 2020.
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Kim Kardashian doesn’t deserve this

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in prior to testifying during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to become an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 21, 2022. - The US Senate takes up the historic nomination on Monday of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial April 5, 1961 in Jerusalem. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and mugshot to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial ahead of Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day May 4, 2005 which this year also marks the 60th anniversary of the Nazi's World War II defeat in 1945. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images)
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