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Pollsters think they’ve learned from their mistakes in 2020. Of course, they thought that last time too.

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Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump raises an awkward question.

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Welcome to the Republicans’ convention counterprogramming.

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Eleven years ago, the podcast host Stephen West was stocking groceries.

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Young adults are not okay—and their distress has gone widely unnoticed.

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The party has changed during, or been changed by, the Trump years.

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The real culprit is the host of federal laws and regulations propping up prices to benefit corporate interests.

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Colleges still don’t have a plan.

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Spiraling housing prices in Provincetown are an extreme version of what’s happening in the U.S. as whole.

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Spencer Cox built his brand on standing against polarization and extremism. Now he’s backing Donald Trump.

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Democrats have managed to make detailed policy ideas into one of Trump’s greatest liabilities.

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The progressive congresswoman is no longer speaking solely to the left wing, but to the party as a whole.

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At the DNC, Hillary Clinton has achieved something approaching icon status among Democrats coming of age.

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