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How To Keep Grief From Breaking Your Life

Marcus Aurelius' Stoic wisdom frames a CIA veteran's journey through grief after losing his wife Kim to cancer and raising their sons alone.

'Lincoln in the Bardo' and Our Own Ghosts

"Lincoln in the Bardo" is such a compelling ghost story - one I struggled with at first, and then fell hard for - that when I saw that the novel by George Saunders was being made into an opera by the composer Missy Mizzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek, I knew I had to see it and did at the Met premiere on Monday night.

Will the Liberal Pollsters Be Wrong...Again?

Liberal talking heads are already frothing about a blue wave in November. Once again, we're being told Republicans are doomed, Democrats are unstoppable, and conservatives should prepare for political exile.

Is Paris Burning?

The violence, political stalemate, and support for the extremes are a more vivid case of what is occurring throughout the West.

France Is Running Out of Other People's Money

It is so hard to watch what is happening in France. On Saturday night, masked rioters looted shops in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, and Bordeaux and set cars ablaze along the Canal Saint-Martin, one of the loveliest corners of Paris. In Limoges, the spire of a 143-year-old town hall collapsed in flames, and for many in France, it brought back memories of the night Notre Dame burned. More than 2,000 people were arrested over the weekend, and now at least two people are dead.

Third World Immigration and Europe's No-Go Zones

The mainstream media are fuming. Marine Le Pen, head of France's most popular party, National Rally, is exploiting the French riots for her political advantage, the media grouse. Le Pen and her right-hand man, Jordan Bardella, portray the riots as the confirmation of everything they have been warning about for years, especially regarding Third World immigration. This is a ruse, complains the press and its establishment sources, a mere rhetorical trick.

Why RealClearPolitics Didn't Fall for the Fake Polls

For the second time in as many months, a fraudulent entity claiming to be a polling operation has been outed for releasing fictitious numbers in hotly contested midterm election campaigns.

GOP Looking Nervous in Deep Red South Carolina

Less than two weeks from the midterms, the president is shoring up his handpicked candidate in a state that hasn't elected a Democrat statewide in two decades.

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