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“Today is the birthday of women’s rights reformer Lucretia (Coffin) Mott, born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1793.”

January 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM

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January 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM

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“Which brings us to another great irony: The man who the government believed committed one of the greatest crimes in our nation’s history now has the ability to seek revenge against those who tried to...

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January 3, 2026 at 1:22 AM

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January 1, 2026

On January 1, 1892, seventeen-year-old Annie Moore walked down the gangway from the steamship Nevada with her two brothers Anthony, eleven, and Philip, nine, and into history as the first person proce...

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January 3, 2026 at 1:11 AM

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The Chief Justice's Report on the State of the Judiciary

As is the custom, on the last day of the year, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a report on the state of the federal judiciary.

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January 3, 2026 at 12:56 AM

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Notes on New York

The Big Apple had a pretty good 2025, but …

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January 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM

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10 Crucial Things You Can Do in 2026

Your activism will be even more important this year

January 1, 2026 at 12:50 PM

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“It’s the birthday of J. D. (Jerome David) Salinger, born in New York City (1919).”

January 1, 2026 at 12:47 PM

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🔥🔥🔥 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!
🔥🔥🔥 DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN!!

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

January 1, 2026 at 12:28 PM

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“In what some observers called a desperation move, Trump offered Venezuelan drug traffickers U.S. citizenship to become seat fillers.”

January 1, 2026 at 12:39 PM

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I think you’re giving him too much credit. He’s more like a 5 year old, spoiled brat who has never been told no. I’v seen kids like that throwing a tantrum in a store, lying on the floor kicking and s...

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January 1, 2026 at 6:38 AM

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Unsealed: Abrego Garcia

The sealed order in the Abrego Garcia case that I wrote about in Sunday night’s “The Week Ahead” column was unsealed today.

The hallmark of the first year of President Donald J.

January 1, 2026 at 1:30 AM

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“They have acted as if the laws, and the Constitution that underpins them, don’t exist.”

December 30, 2025

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January 1, 2026 at 1:17 AM

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The Writer’s Almanac from Wednesday, December 31, 2008

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January 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM

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The Missiles Fall. The Bromance Endures.

As Russian drones and missiles tore into Kyiv, Donald Trump found time not for outrage—but for understanding Vladimir Putin.

January 1, 2026 at 12:31 AM

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“The simple truth is that we lost the election” I’m not so sure about that. I think some of the crucial voting machines were hacked. Trump almost admitted that about Pennsylvania.

January 1, 2026 at 12:22 AM

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“Many Americans are already sickened by MAGA’s wanton cruelty and bigotry against immigrants, and I believe that their numbers will grow. To paraphrase Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Americans will soon ...

December 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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“It’s the birthday of the British writer Rudyard Kipling, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India (1865).”

December 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM

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Hoping for a change for the better in 2026.

December 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM

Art Hopkins

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“For the time being, election victories by Democrats are our only hope of saving American democracy. But in the longer run, we need two decent, sane political parties.”