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Joe Manchin Would Like a Word. (OK, Maybe Several Words.)

The voluble former senator, now retired from politics, appears to miss the arena and is mulling a return to it.

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Joe Manchin III aboard his boat docked on Washington’s Wharf. Over his 14 years in the Senate, Mr. Manchin was often a pivotal figure in big-ticket legislative negotiations when he butted heads with liberals.
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In New Book, Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Takes On the Constitution

The Heritage Foundation’s clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.

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The Heritage Foundation, founded in 1973, has long shaped the personnel and policies of Republican administrations.
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett Argues Her Own Case, and the Court’s, in New Book

In a new book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks for faith in the Supreme Court but reveals very little.

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“My office doesn’t entitle me to align the legal system with my moral or policy views,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett writes in her new book, “Listening to the Law.”
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Edgar Feuchtwanger, Who Wrote About Being Hitler’s Neighbor, Dies at 100

He and his Jewish family lived across the street from the German leader in the 1930s. He became a professor and historian in Britain.

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Edgar Feuchtwanger in 2016. A British historian, he wrote a book late in life about growing up in Munich across the street from Adolf Hitler.
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Alberta Backs Off on School Library Book Ban

Alberta ordered schools to pull “inappropriate” books, but paused its plan after a large school district banned scores of books in an apparent effort to make a point.

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Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, whose government had ordered the removal of books from school libraries that described sex or other topics deemed inappropriate for young people.
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Gérard Chaliand, Intrepid Authority on Geopolitics, Dies at 91

His considerable influence in the French-speaking world was based on an unusual attribute: He had actually been to the revolutions he wrote about.

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Gérard Chaliand in 1992. His lectures on geopolitics routinely drew top-level diplomats and officers.
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Following the Sounds of Arabic to Rediscover Paris

A language student’s guide to the French capital highlights the culinary, literary and musical influences that quietly shape everyday life.

Inside the Andalusian garden at the Grand Mosque of Paris.
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