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An empty Pentagon-style briefing lectern at night with a phone resting on it, a social media post glowing on the screen.
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We Started Bombing Yemen Again on a Saturday, Which Is When You Schedule the Things You’d Rather Nobody Notice

Margaret Thorne -
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A military cargo aircraft on a tarmac with pallets of supplies, the kind of shipment now suspended under the administration's pause on aid to Ukraine.
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We Paused the War on a Monday, and the People Who Used to Call This Appeasement Were Suddenly Very Quiet

Margaret Thorne -
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CPAC Used to Be Where the Fringe Auditioned. Now It’s Where the Cabinet Reports Back.

Margaret Thorne -
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A candlelit Georgetown dinner table mid-meal with a half-eaten plate of halibut, wine glasses, and empty chairs pushed back.
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On Firing the Joint Chiefs Chairman, and the Dinner Party Where Everyone Complimented the Halibut

Margaret Thorne -
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An empty ornate conference stage with wilting flowers and red velvet seats, lit by cold blue light from tall windows.
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In Munich, on Valentine’s Day, the Vice President Told Europe the Honeymoon Was Always a Fiction

Margaret Thorne -
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A cleared Georgetown dinner table after guests have left, with wine dregs and a half-eaten cheese board lit by a single warm lamp.
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The Senate Just Confirmed a Director of National Intelligence Who Spent the Last Four Years Calling the Intelligence Community a Cabal

Margaret Thorne -
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An empty White House briefing room with one overturned chair and a reporter's notebook left behind on the seat
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You Can Be Banned From the White House Now for Using the Wrong Map

Margaret Thorne -
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An empty marble performing-arts-center lobby at dusk with a single lectern and a long red carpet leading to closed gilded doors.
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The President Appointed Himself Chairman of the Kennedy Center and Nobody at Dinner Could Name a Single Thing Wrong With It

Margaret Thorne -
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A dimly lit formal dining room with abandoned dinner plates, wine glasses, and a folded newspaper, suggesting a dinner party that has quietly ended.
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The Man Who Said He Wanted Civil Servants ‘In Trauma’ Got 53 Votes and a Corner Office

Margaret Thorne -
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The Cheapest Thing in Washington Is Still a Signature

Margaret Thorne -
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