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TGIF: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
TGIF: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree. Hollywood, California, 1954. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Featuring Laura Ingraham, Alison Roman, tornadoes, the Build Back Better bust, and some signs of turning tide.
By Nellie Bowles
12.17.21 — TGIF
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TGIF: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Welcome back to TGIF, the weekly roundup of the news we’re watching, reading, sharing, and obsessing over. 

Below you’ll find a short examination into why Biden’s would-be signature legislation is stalling, glimmers of reform in our most progressive cities, and what you might have missed this week at Common Sense.

And because I’m taking off next week—and…

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Nellie Bowles

Nellie Bowles is a reporter for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.

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