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California’s population is growing again

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IT WAS THE end of an era. In 2020 California’s population shrunk for the first time since it joined the union in 1850. People had flocked to the state for its farmland, beaches and stellar industries. When falling birthrates, lower immigration, out-migration to cheaper states and the covid-19 pandemic reversed that trend, California had a bit of an identity crisis.

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Checks and Balance newsletter: Of God and MAGA

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Charlotte Howard, our executive editor and New York bureau chief, unpacks the blurring of church and state among Donald Trump’s circle

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The Hudson is now so clean that everyone can eat from it

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Battery sashimi, anyone?

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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is a lethality-maxxing wasps’ nest

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America’s armed forces are supremely capable and roiled by infighting

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