Andrew Ferguson
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CM / CQ Roll Call / Getty The Unclubbable Republican
Like lots of fanatics, Tom Coburn, the former Republican senator from Oklahoma, was at bottom a moralist.
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Edmon De Haro Springtime for Introverts
The world has caught up with us at last.
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Arinze Stanley The College President Who Simply Won’t Raise Tuition
Mitch Daniels has frozen Purdue’s tuition—at less than $10,000—for seven straight years.
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Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Trump’s Beautiful Proposal for Federal Architecture
The classicists hope to address a problem that the architecture establishment does not see as a problem.
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Cecilia Carlstedt Abraham Lincoln’s Radical Moderation
What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t
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Tom Brenner / Getty Iowa Forgot the Whole Point of the Caucus
The state got itself in trouble by deploying an untested app in a misbegotten attempt to rationalize itself.
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Ron Thomas / Reuters Historians Should Stay Out of Politics
A knowledge of history is no replacement for good judgment, which is what this moment calls for.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Triggered by Donald Trump Jr.
The new book by the president’s son should be far more interesting than it actually is.
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Handout / Reuters Everyone Hates the Boomers, OK?
The lessons of a short-lived meme
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Jonno Rattman Can Marriage Counseling Save America?
Borrowing techniques from couples therapy to bring liberals and conservatives back together
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Amy Harris / AP Malcolm Gladwell Reaches His Tipping Point
After 20 years, has the author’s formula at last been exhausted?
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Walter McBride / Getty Cheering the Constitution’s Demise
Heidi Schreck isn’t a fan of America’s founding charter—which may be why her audiences are such big fans of hers.
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Roschetzky Photography / Shutterstock The Guilty Pleasures of Mansion Porn
Each week, The Wall Street Journal offers its readers the choice between envy and schadenfreude.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Tyranny of the 70-Somethings
The Democratic Party’s gerontocracy is holding back the political causes it claims to want to advance.
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Marty Lederhandler / AP The Tragedy of Edmund Morris
The biographer went looking for the inner life of Ronald Reagan. He didn’t find it.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Self-Limiting Revolution
Knock Down the House set out to show an inspiring political movement—but instead revealed its boundaries.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Abraham Lincoln’s $6 Million Hat
It’s a relic of a beloved president. But did he ever wear it?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters A Republic Too Fractured to Be Funny
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner suggests that stand-up joke telling is an art form whose moment has passed.
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M. Dykstra / Shutterstock / The Atlantic There’s No Substitute for Print
Some joys can’t be digitized.
