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What Trump Brings Out in Americans
Plus: Will the Hunter Biden story spell trouble for Democrats?
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Question of the Week
If you could pose one earnest question to any of the Republican candidates, what would it be? (No insults disguised as questions allowed.)
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Is Multiverse Storytelling at Its Best
What’s better than a Marvel Cinematic Universe? A Marvel Cinematic Multiverse. Once limited to theoretical physics and comic-book plot conveniences, the notion of a multiverse has been an essential tool for Hollywood. Whether it’s a role that’s been cast and recast, a franchise character that gets a spin-off when the larger story ends, or simply a reboot telling a new story without upending its origins, the answer to any big movie problem is often: multiverse.
Despite being filmmaking’s crutch du
A Taxonomy of Republicans’ Coded Language
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The first time I witnessed the birth of a right-wing talking point, I was sitting in a crowded ballroom at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland. This was the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, and I was listening to Sebastian Gorka deliver remarks that fell somewhere on the spectrum from venting to fomenting.
There he was in his three-piece suit, voice booming: “They want to