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In ‘The Fraud,’ Zadie Smith Has Doubts About Fiction

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Is there anything worse than a novel? Is there anyone more vain, more laughable, more exploitative yet morally self-serious than the novelist? Or, as the protagonist of Zadie Smith’s sixth novel puts it: “ ‘Oh what does it matter what that man thinks of anything? He’s a novelist!’ Without meaning to, she had spoken in the same tone with which one might say He’s a child.”

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‘Need To Win’: Powerful Iowa Evangelical Leader Expresses His Doubts About Trump

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Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of The Family Leader, has voiced strong concerns about former President Donald Trump being the 2024 GOP presidential nominee.

Vander Plaats, who has achieved enormous influence in Iowa, has expressed his desire not only for the eventual nominee to act in a dignified way, but also his worries about how to win over younger generations who will be voting for decades to come.

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Experts raise doubts about NHTSA’s fuel economy proposal

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The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents many of the industry players investing in electrification, has called for one national standard that aligns NHTSA’s fuel economy standards with the EPA’s regulation.

The group was still reviewing NHTSA’s proposal but said it was “encouraging” that the two regulators seem to have tried to “sync up” the rules.

“Conflicting and overlapping rules are complex and expensive,” John Bozzella, the group’s CEO, said in a statement last month. “If an automaker complies with

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