February 6, 2024 Issue

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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

✪ John Roberts’s World Series

by Varad Mehta

✪ Republicans agitate base on immigration at a cost

by Jay Cost

Your Land

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Gaza on the Connecticut River

by Timothy P. Carney

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To infinity … and it’s gone

by Zachary Faria

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Are Elon Musk’s brain implants really worth it?

by Jeremiah Poff

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Who’s afraid of Taylor Swift?

by Madeline Fry Schultz

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The millennial failure to launch

by Conn Carroll

Business

BUSINESS

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

by Zach Halaschak

BUSINESS

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

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

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

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

The Kamala contradiction — sagging approval, strong campaigning

by Haisten Willis

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

by Jamie McIntyre

Newest House member navigates Congress amid legislative tumult and vacancies

by Cami Mondeaux

The Columnists

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Dan Hannan

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

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Dominic Green

Iran has declared war

Life & Arts

Books

Rachmaninoff far from home

by Micah Mattix

Books

The nitty-gritty of freedom

by Robert VerBruggen

Books

James Lee Burke’s short fiction is no literary crime

by Malcolm Forbes

On Culture

Lucky Jim at 70 and the long decline of the university

by Alexander Larman

Film

How the world changed beneath I.S.S.

TV

Bomber boys

by J. Oliver Conroy

Sports

Wrestling and the recreation of cable

by Oliver Bateman

Long Life

A scented millionaire shall not want

More from the Magazine

Business

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

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Obituary

Jimy Williams, 1943-2024

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