Get Ready for Weeks of Campaign Quakes
Plus: One Year Later, the Prigozhin Mutiny Still Leaves a Mark
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A.B. STODDARD: Get Ready for Weeks of Campaign Quakes.
SOMETIMES EVENTS THAT REMAKE the political landscape can’t be seen ahead of time. But a series of dramatic events in the 2024 presidential campaign—ones that we know of—are set to unfold in the days and weeks ahead. Finally the dreaded, and seemingly immovable, rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump could see a shakeup.
From the first debate to the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s bid for immunity, from Trump’s July 11 sentencing in the New York court that found him guilty of 34 felonies to his announcement of a running mate and then his nominating convention on July 15, developments will come swiftly that could alter the strategies of both campaigns as well as the candidates’ poll positions.
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CATHY YOUNG: One Year Later, the Prigozhin Mutiny Still Leaves a Mark
A YEAR AGO TODAY, the world watched in amazement as, for the first time since 1941, an army marched toward Moscow. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the onetime Vladimir Putin crony and head of the infamous Wagner mercenary group whose clashes with the Russian Ministry of Defense and army brass had grown increasingly vocal over the preceding months, was leading a column of several thousand Wagner fighters in a self-styled “March for Justice.”
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IN 1835, P.T. BARNUM BOUGHT an enslaved black woman named Joice Heth and marketed her as George Washington’s 161-year-old, forty-six-pound nurse—“The Greatest National and Natural Curiosity in the World.” She was “the first human oddity” his circus ever exhibited, but far from the last.
Nearly a century later, circusgoers could see spear-carrying men in loincloths; Clicko, “the wild dancing bushman” of Africa; and “Genuine Ubangi Savages” with “mouths and lips as large as those of full-grown alligators,” also advertised as “monster-mouthed” savages and the “World’s Most Weird Living Humans From Africa’s Darkest Depths.” There were Asians, Africans, and Native Americans—actual human beings—on display at fairgrounds, theaters, and zoos across America and Europe.
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Game 7… I have two friends who, when we lived in Alexandria, were also big hockey fans. During my time there, the Caps won the Cup, my Blues did (I called it here!), and now, their two teams are facing off. What a Finals it has been! It’s easy to say now, but as a Cleveland fan, I had a bad feeling after the blowout Game 4. Nothing against Edmonton, but I’m pulling for Florida. (I always root for the team that has never won.)
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