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Sep 7, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 7, 2026

    Tucker Carlson: You Can’t Avoid Him (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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  2. Issue · Aug 31, 2026

    Thank You, Dolly (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    The best intro to a Dolly Parton story I’ve read this week is from Casey Cep in “Dolly Parton, Honky-Tonk Angel” for The New Yorker.It’s tempting to say that all the obituaries are wrong, but that’s wrong, too: Dolly Parton meant something to everybody, so everybody has something of their own to grieve. She really did launch out of a sharecropper’s cabin in a Smoky Mountain holler like a secret siloed missile built fro

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