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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK Churn, Baby, Churn We might as well go ahead and admit it: There are moments when it seems as though The Scrap-book and the New York Times inhabit different universes. This happens...
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Casual
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MATUS, VICTORINO
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CASUAL Sonata with Cheese, Please There’s a song I’ve started to play on the piano. It’s called “Money,” a fairly straightforward arrangement by Burt Bacharach. The only problem is Liza Minnelli’s...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS Finish the Investigation In May, when deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller to inves-tigate “any links and/or coordination between the...
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The War on Christmas . . . Parties, That Is
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LABASH, MATT
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The War on Christmas . . . Parties, That Is No sauce for the goose or the gander. by Matt Labash As we celebrate this Christmas season (or this “holiday,” for Christ-haters), I don’t wish to be a...
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The Phony Case Against Tax Cuts
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MECIA, TONY
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The Phony Case Against Tax Cuts No, the middle class isn’t being fleeced. by Tony Mecia There are plenty of understand-able objections to the tax bill sailing through Congress. Some people think...
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A Capital Idea
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ABRAMS, ELLIOTT
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A Capital Idea Trump is right on Jerusalem. by Elliott Abrams President Trump on December 6 ended all hope of Middle East peace, recklessly encouraged terrorism, and ruined U.S. relations with all...
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Brian Ross, Suspended
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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Brian Ross, Suspended A long history of getting it wrong. by Philip Terzian On inauguration eve 1991, in Rhode Island, the departing governor, Edward DiPrete, had a morsel of news for the incoming...
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Tax Reform Targets Obamacare
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Mccormack, John
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Tax Reform Targets Obamacare After all, the Court said the mandate is a tax. BY JOHN MCCORMACK One day in October, Arkansas senator Tom Cotton approached Mitch McCon-nell on the Senate floor to...
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You're Fired!
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Taylor, Stuart Jr.
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1 m m m i you re Fired! 'S > ¦ ¦¦ wUa ¥ What happens if Trump sacks Mueller? By Stuart Taylor Jr. As special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI circle ever closer to the Oval Office,...
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Holland, Max
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Much Ado About Nothing Almost a third of Americans believe there was a wider conspiracy to kill Jack Kennedy. They’re wrong. By Max Holland On October 26, the National Archives was supposed to...
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The God of the Snooker Table
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BOTTUM, JOSEPH
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--------------Books ^Arts-----------------The God of the Snooker Table The game’s greatest player and the anguished dream of perfection. BY JOSEPH BOTTUM Abeautifui simplicity seems to unfold...
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The Oldman Churchill
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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The Oldman Churchill A metaphor for Britain’s stiffening spine. BY JOHN PODHORETZ Darkest Hour is a movie about the first three weeks of Winston Churchill’s premiership in May 1940, and it is...
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In Us We Trust?
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Sarewitz, Daniel
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B A In Us We Trust? Institutions are indispensable, even as trust in them declines. by Daniel Sarewitz Pollsters, pundits, and public intellectuals identify declin-ing levels of trust in...
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Kiddie Con Man
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BecK, Stefan
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B A Kiddie Con Man The Great Brain at 50. by Stefan Beck Of the many things that a young fellow, barely knee-high to a grasshopper, might aspire to be when he grows up, one that doesn’t often...
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Meme Girls
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Wishard, Grant
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B A Meme Girls Tina Fey’s clique flickprepares for Broadway. by Grant Wishard Back in 2013, in my last weeks as a high school senior, with plenty of free time on my hands, I wrote a survival...
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“I have made the decision to retire from my position as the Member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan’s Thirteenth Congressional District effective today.” —John Conyers...
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Vol. 023 Issue 016 (December 25 2017)
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2018
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