Articles filed under Washington Post
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DraftKings, FanDuel fees deemed taxable in landmark IRS memoAug 22, 2020 6:19 am - Daily fantasy sports companies like FanDuel and DraftKings must pay federal excise tax on their entry fees, the IRS has decided, in an internal memo that could cause a m...
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Book review: Benvolio and Juliet are lovers and survivors in David Nicholls 'Sweet Sorrow'Aug 21, 2020 6:00 am - "Sweet Sorrow" By David Nicholls (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) What if, instead of loving Romeo and dying dramatically, Juliet fell for Benvolio and their ...
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Fact-checking the fourth night of 2020 Democratic National ConventionAug 21, 2020 1:00 am - On the final night of the 2020 DNC, many speeches continued to offer generalities, not hard numbers that fact checkers could chew on. Here are four items that caught our...
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This reliable jam recipe will let you savor the best berries and stone fruit year-roundAug 19, 2020 6:00 am - These glorious months of raspberries and peaches, blackberries, plums and nectarines inevitably lead me to making jam. I can't leave a farmers market without pounds of r...
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Seafood guacamole makes a luxurious, no-cook weeknight supperAug 19, 2020 6:00 am - Sometimes a weeknight dinner can be a luxurious. There's no rule against that, right? I was inspired to make this Seafood Guacamole — with shrimp and crab — after spendi...
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Grilled Indian yogurt sandwiches offer a cooling crunch and creaminess in each biteAug 19, 2020 6:00 am - When Chetna Makan was growing up in central India, one sandwich showed up more often than any other in her and her classmates' lunchboxes: dahi toast, a grilled number f...
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Book review: Memo to baby boomers, from millennials: Everything's your faultAug 18, 2020 6:00 am - "OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind" by Jill Filipovic (Atria/One Signal) Approximately one million years ago, in 2019, the long-simmering gen...
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For those facing dementia, diagnostic tool nothing to brag aboutAug 16, 2020 8:00 am - Jay Reinstein remembers the day he took the cognitive test President Donald Trump keeps bragging about. “One of the questions was to draw a clock at a certain time, and ...
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Literary fantasy unevenly blends with civil rights era in HBO's 'Lovecraft Country'Aug 16, 2020 7:29 am - HBO's horror drama "Lovecraft Country," premiering at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, on HBO, arrives at an opportune moment in American culture, with big, scary metaphors about...
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Jonathan Majors is your new American heroAug 16, 2020 7:22 am - The hero's journey is a circuitous one. After setting out into the great unknown, battling monsters and men, our protagonist inevitably winds up at Point A again, ready ...