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16Dec

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Health

Weekend podcast: actor Toby Jones, John Crace on Sunak at the Covid inquiry, and how Taylor Swift gets in shape for her shows | Life and style

Actor Toby Jones on class, character and the cost of fame (1m26s); John Crace on Rishi Sunak’s break from a feral Tory party with a spa day at the Covid inquiry (23m00s); and the weird world of celebrity training – how Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Madonna get in shape for their shows (30ms58) How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know

11Dec

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World

NDP Keeps Justin Trudeau Afloat

TorontoPrime Minister Justin Trudeau sometimes seems to defy political gravity. He’s held office for more than eight years, through scandal and error. He survived revelations that he wore blackface three times as a young man, along with two ethics violations handed down from Canada’s ethics commissioner for conflict of interest. He has had public spats with female parliamentarians and ministers—as well as icy relations with China and India and with Presidents Trump and Biden. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Conservative Donors Failed to Show Up in the 2023 Elections

19Nov

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Business

Conservative Donors Failed to Show Up in the 2023 Elections

Once critics of the supposedly malign influence of money in politics, the progressive left proved to be big spenders in November’s elections. In four key state races—for Kentucky’s governor, Virginia’s General Assembly, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court and Ohio’s abortion referendum—left-wing advocacy groups dropped at least $135 million on campaign ads, outspending conservative groups by $42 million.A few years ago, left-leaning organizations and media outlets warned that conservatives had come to “dominate” state politics and policy. They pointed to Republican victories in state elections and significant policy achievements like the Wisconsin collective-bargaining reform known as Act 10. Those of us working in the trenches on these issues knew better. Government unions and progressive speci...

18Nov

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Weekend podcast: Nicolas Cage, Marina Hyde on David Cameron’s return, plus cardiologists’ advice for a healthy heart | Life and style

Is Rishi Sunak rewarding failure? With David Cameron back it’s being celebrated like never before, says Marina Hyde (1m28s); Nicolas Cage on dreams, fame and his two-headed snake (10m25s); why one woman flew across the world to win back her ex (22m51s); and four cardiologists share 20 simple steps to a healthy heart (27m37s) How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know

12Nov

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Hawley Aims at Wokeness and Misses

Nov. 12, 2023 12:51 pm ETConservatives celebrated when the Supreme Court ruled, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), that corporations have a right to free speech. Now Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) has joined Bernie Sanders to propose legislation that defies Citizens United. Mr. Hawley is up front about wanting to silence publicly traded corporations because he doesn’t like what some have to say. “Corporate America has funneled billions of dollars into elections in favor of politicians who favor their woke, social agendas,” he says in a press release. He wants to “hold mega-corporations’ feet to the fire and stop their dollars from buying our elections.” He exhorts: “To my conservative friends, listen, there is no reason we should want to empower these mega-corporations....

The Pope’s Coming Vatican Showdown with American Conservatives

18Sep

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Entertainment

The Pope’s Coming Vatican Showdown with American Conservatives

Pope Francis’s “apostolic journey” to Mongolia earlier this month had the unexpected consequence of bringing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a singular and controversial French Jesuit scientist who died nearly seventy years ago, into the news cycle. As it turns out, Teilhard’s theology of cosmic spiritual progress is a useful way to understand the challenges that Francis is currently facing, as he and the Church prepare for a global synod next month in Rome. There, three hundred and sixty-three clerical and lay leaders representing two rival conceptions of the Church will encounter one another for several weeks of behind-closed-doors dialogue—a process that is meant to be amicable but may lead to open conflict prior to a second session next October.The main question surrounding the Pope’s jou...

A New Lawsuit Alleges That Leonard Leo Called for the Arrest of a Pro-Choice Protester

20Jul

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Entertainment

A New Lawsuit Alleges That Leonard Leo Called for the Arrest of a Pro-Choice Protester

Even an exclusive summer oasis is no refuge from the divisive partisan politics poisoning much of the country. In the fall of 2018, Leonard Leo, the powerful leader of the conservative legal group the Federalist Society, bought a lavish $3.3-million waterfront estate in Northeast Harbor, Maine, on Mount Desert Island, an area famous for its staggering beauty and equally staggering old money. Northeast Harbor’s ethos is understated and blue-blooded. Peabodys, Vanderbilts, and their latter-day incarnations sail, golf, play tennis, and host dinners at grand shingle-style houses often referred to as “cottages.” “Until recently, the only thing anyone thought about here was their backhand,” Alison Schafer, a fifth-generation summer resident, told me. “But, since Leo arrived, the town is in turm...

Can a New Spanish-Language Media Group Help Donald Trump?

16Jul

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Can a New Spanish-Language Media Group Help Donald Trump?

For more than five decades, the Versailles restaurant in Miami’s Little Havana has been a place to be seen for Cuban Americans—and for politicians vying for their attention. It was there that, prior to the 1978 gubernatorial election, the Democratic candidate Bob Graham bused tables, delivering on a promise to spend a hundred days working the jobs of ordinary Floridians. In 1992, after Bill Clinton won the Presidency, he hosted a buffet at Versailles to thank Cuban Americans for securing his win in the state. Years later, his successor, George W. Bush, spoke with local entrepreneurs there over café con leche and pastelitos. So it was hardly a coincidence that Donald Trump walked through its doors last month, after leaving the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr., Courthouse, in downtown Miami.Curious ...