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A green stock ticker glows above a raised wine glass in cold fluorescent light.
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The Earnings Beat Forecasts Thursday. Nothing Else Did.

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The United States Capitol dome illuminated against a dark winter sky
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We Don’t Pass Budgets Anymore. We Pass Postponements.

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High-angle wide view of a sparsely attended House committee room during a Sunday vote, members at the dais with hands raised, mostly empty seats, cold daylight through tall windows.
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The Clintons Were Held in Contempt Sunday. The Word Did the Heavy Lifting.

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Small wooden chairs and a low table in a quiet daycare classroom, late afternoon light through the windows.
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HHS Froze the Childcare Money. The Word for It Was ‘Pause.’

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A large, orderly weekend protest march moving through a city street in winter, marchers in heavy coats carrying handmade signs.
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The Crowds Marched Saturday. The Permits Were in Order.

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A gray federal office building entrance at dawn on a cold January morning, with dark-coated figures arriving for work under bare trees.
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Trump Reclassified the Civil Service. The Dinner Was Lamb.

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Overhead night view of an empty highway interchange split between warm amber and cold blue light.
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Twenty States Raised the Minimum. Fifteen Lowered Something Else.

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A small black hardware wallet on a marble counter beside the base of a red wine glass and a sprig of rosemary.
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The Year Bitcoin Stopped Being Vulgar

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A damaged electrical substation in Ukraine at winter dusk with twisted transmission equipment and small figures of repair crews in the distance.
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Russia Bombed the Grid Sunday. The Year-End Lists Held.

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A vintage cathode-ray television set on shag carpet in a wood-paneled rec room, glowing faintly in late afternoon light, with an empty armchair angled toward it.
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On PBS, NPR, and the Civic Cowardice of Pretending This Is Sudden

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