China Charges Former Rising Political Star With Bribery

FILE – In this March 13, 2017, file photo, the then-party secretary of Chongqing, Sun Zhengcai, attends the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate announced the indictment of Sun on …

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“They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra, just for you” — so Philip Larkin famously observed about parents. And it’s true, we do. But even if I accept that my children will inherit my wife’s tardiness or my neurosis, there is one thing I’ve always been reluctant about passing on: my political …

Not this much, anyway. Good citizenship was not supposed to entail paying obsessive attention to a 24-hour news cycle. It was not supposed to demand conversational knowledge, at any given moment, of at least 15 issues of national importance. It was not supposed to be the task of each American to have …

The answer, a growing number of studies conclude, is that most forms of politicalpersuasion seem to have little effect at all. This conclusion may sound jarring at a time when people are concerned about the effects of the false news articles that flooded Facebook and other online outlets during the 2016 …

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Ordinarily, the event would pass barely noticed in the worlds of politics and art. Yes, the Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, owns the only readily accessible complete collection of presidential likenesses. But recently commissioned additions to the collection have been so undistinguished that …

“The time for political posturing is behind us,” McConnell said later Monday on the Senate floor. He said while Democrats have called for “swift action” on immigration, “Now’s the time to back up the talk with the hard work of finding a solution.” That, he pointedly said, would mean passage by the Senate and …

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