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Strangers on a train: The highs and lows of my 2-day rail journey from Chicago to LA By Alexandra Marvar, Chicago Tribune © Alexandra Marvar/Chicago Tribune/TNS This teddy bear has plenty of room for its long-distance ride on the Southwest Chief. At 6 a.m., the sun shoots through the back window of the Amtrak train car like an orange spotlight. Outside, the rails glow against the flat plains of western Kansas. Maybe the light woke me. Or maybe, after four or five times of restlessly opening my eyes, it just happens to be dawn. I teeter down the aisle of 2 1/2 cars full of p...

To the Editor: The Republican media universe has long understood that misogynistic attacks against prominent Democratic women are a motivating force for their base. With Hillary Clinton unlikely to run for public office again and Nancy Pelosi set to retire as House speaker at the end of this term, it comes as no surprise that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a charismatic democratic socialist who refuses to accept corporate money and has proved adept both at communicating leftist policy ideas and at cutting through the rhetoric of her Republican counterparts, would be their next booge...