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

16 septembre 2025 à 14:47
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

9 septembre 2025 à 11:19
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.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett Argues Her Own Case, and the Court’s, in New Book

4 septembre 2025 à 23:10
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.”

Edgar Feuchtwanger, Who Wrote About Being Hitler’s Neighbor, Dies at 100

4 septembre 2025 à 23:52
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.

Alberta Backs Off on School Library Book Ban

2 septembre 2025 à 19:13
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.

Gérard Chaliand, Intrepid Authority on Geopolitics, Dies at 91

28 août 2025 à 10:43
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.

Following the Sounds of Arabic to Rediscover Paris

27 août 2025 à 05:00
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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