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Ivanka Ghosts Trumpland as Investigators Turn Up the Heat

By Jose Pagliery, Asawin Suebsaeng

Ivanka Trump has largely avoided the national spotlight for the last year. Now, investigators in two separate probes think she could be key to her father’s undoing.

‘The Gilded Age’ Is Even More Fun Than ‘Downton Abbey’

By Kevin Fallon

The new HBO series from the “Downton” creator features all the corsets, fancy houses, and bitchy people talking about being rich that we’ve missed. It’s “Downton on steroids.”

One Farm’s Secret Ingredient for Clean Electricity: Cow Poop

By Kaya Laterman

All of that waste is an opportunity for farmers to build their own independent power grids—and help stop climate change along the way.

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Biden Just Won’t Admit When He’s Screwed Up

By Matt Lewis

The “anti-Trump” president is a lot like his predecessor. He’s incapable of owning his failures and changing course.

NPR ‘Founding Mother’ Unloads on NPR Public Editor

By Zachary Petrizzo, Blake Montgomery

“She can say any goddamn thing she wants,” Nina Totenberg said of NPR’s Public Editor before letting out a deep laugh.

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The Most Humbling Place in the World to Fish

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To be consistently successful here sets an angler apart.

The Klan Was the Original ‘Election Police’

By Barrett Holmes Pitner

Today’s Republican politicians are counting on ignorance of or apathy about that history as they try to create their own election-crime cop forces.

A Horrifying New Princess Diana Doc Kicks Off Sundance

By Kevin Fallon

New doc “The Princess” reframes Diana’s story through archival footage and news clips from the time, revealing what was happening not behind closed doors, but in plain sight.

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