Britain possessed the world's strongest navy, a professional army, immense financial resources, and global reach.
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Joseph Andrew,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Connaughton possessed a rare talent for making dense economic matters accessible and easy for the public and reporters to understand, Richard Buttimer, dean of the Belk College of Business, told The Charlotte Observer Tuesday.
—
Chase Jordan
July 1,
Charlotte Observer,
1 July 2026
The pseudonymous title character, a depressed, drunken, belligerent twenty-six-year-old advice columnist, has no real hardships of his own and is cursed by doubt.
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Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
1 July 2026
Unlike Tithonus, cursed to age forever, electoral rules can and should be renewed.
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