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Marco Rubio, MAGA and the State Department’s new look

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SOMETHING STRANGE happened on April 22nd. A top member of America’s cabinet announced big changes to his department—and it did not represent a MAGA-inspired overhaul. At a time when Donald Trump’s worst instincts are dominating public policy, it is notable that Marco Rubio’s reforms at the State Department resemble what might have come out of a conventional Republican administration.

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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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