February 6, 2024 Issue

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Digital Edition

FEATURE

Biden’s border battle with Texas

by Kyle Sammin

✪ Duel in the desert: Veteran GOP lawmaker defends dramatically redrawn inland district key to House control

by David Mark

✪ Republicans agitate base on immigration at a cost

by Jay Cost

✪ John Roberts’s World Series

by Varad Mehta

Your Land

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The millennial failure to launch

by Conn Carroll

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Gaza on the Connecticut River

by Timothy P. Carney

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Who’s afraid of Taylor Swift?

by Madeline Fry Schultz

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Are Elon Musk’s brain implants really worth it?

by Jeremiah Poff

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To infinity … and it’s gone

by Zachary Faria

Business

BUSINESS

Repealing the SALT deduction cap would force the working class to fund sanctuary cities

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

BUSINESS

Congress attempts bipartisan election-year tax changes with White House support

by Zach Halaschak

Letter From The Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Of all the presidents possible!

Washington Briefing

Medicare Advantage plans are a bargaining chip in negotiations between hospitals and insurers

by David Hogberg

Newest House member navigates Congress amid legislative tumult and vacancies

by Cami Mondeaux

The Kamala contradiction — sagging approval, strong campaigning

by Haisten Willis

Rep. Menendez set to share New Jersey Democratic primary ballot with indicted senator father

America’s next-generation ICBM is over budget and under fire

by Jamie McIntyre

The Columnists

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Dominic Green

Iran has declared war

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Dan Hannan

For the Left, forced population movements don’t count if they are white-on-white

Life & Arts

Books

The nitty-gritty of freedom

by Robert VerBruggen

Long Life

A scented millionaire shall not want

TV

Bomber boys

by J. Oliver Conroy

Film

How the world changed beneath I.S.S.

Books

James Lee Burke’s short fiction is no literary crime

by Malcolm Forbes

Sports

Wrestling and the recreation of cable

by Oliver Bateman

On Culture

Lucky Jim at 70 and the long decline of the university

by Alexander Larman

Books

Rachmaninoff far from home

by Micah Mattix

More from the Magazine

Business

Repealing the SALT deduction cap would force the working class to fund sanctuary cities

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Obituary

Jimy Williams, 1943-2024

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