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The House Minority Leader has kept his caucus together and eked out small victories. But if Democrats win the House, his consensus-driven approach will face new tests.

From the daily newsletter: The hardest part of any job is starting, a maxim that might feel especially true to writers. A new book offers some goofy, avant-garde exercises to help get going.

As OpenAI's and Anthropic's valuations soar, Silicon Valley outsiders are rushing to secure a small slice however they can.

The "LatinoLand" author discusses a few of the books that she has turned to while working on her new novel.

The real question of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI was whether the company's corporate transformation was cynical in intention or merely in outcome. Musk may have lost the case, but the trial was also a net negative for humanity.

Senator John Cornyn is trying to fight off Texas's attorney general, Ken Paxton, in a battle to see how far right the state can be pushed. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee, may benefit.

See today's Daily Cartoon.

May God have mercy on our millennial souls.

Writers are fed a bevy of mantras--"show don't tell," "kill your darlings"--which provide the security that there are rules, but little else. A new book by Lucy Ives offers a more expansive view of writing advice.

Samuel Barber's 1958 opera was in disrepute for decades. A remarkable new production is the latest evidence of its rightful resurgence.