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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    From House speaker to retiree: Kevin McCarthy’s stunning rise and fall

    The Bakersfield Republican says he’ll resign from Congress at the end of the year, after being ousted from the House speakership. Does he leave with bitterness?

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    By Madeleine Brand • Dec 6, 2023 • 1 min read

    The Bakersfield Republican says he’ll resign from Congress at the end of the year, after being ousted from the House speakership. Does he leave with bitterness?

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    Cursive lessons return to CA: Brain-boosting or unnecessary?
    1. 0:00Remembering TV legend Norman Lear
    2. 15:23From House speaker to retiree: Kevin McCarthy’s stunning rise and fallYou’re reading this
    3. 24:16‘Pandemic tackled all of us’: Michael Cunningham on ‘Day’
    4. 40:03New skill or waste of time? Cursive returns to CA classrooms
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    The full episode

    2 of 4
    Cursive lessons return to CA: Brain-boosting or unnecessary?
    1. 0:00Remembering TV legend Norman Lear
    2. 15:23From House speaker to retiree: Kevin McCarthy’s stunning rise and fallYou’re reading this
    3. 24:16‘Pandemic tackled all of us’: Michael Cunningham on ‘Day’
    4. 40:03New skill or waste of time? Cursive returns to CA classrooms
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand