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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Trump Has Filled, Not Drained, the Swamp
The president has made a mockery of a promise at the core of his campaign. It is time for the #MAGA media to tell his supporters the truth.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Why ESPN Is More Political Than Before
The sports network’s controversial transformation is driven more by the audience and less by elites than many observers realize.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Can Conservative Journalism Survive?
The right’s old guard faces an existential threat in populism. But it isn’t yet clear that they understand the stakes or possess the confidence to fight back.
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Jim Tanner / Reuters Dittoheads for Cutting Deals With Democrats
Rush Limbaugh and his listeners are taking Donald Trump’s new relationship with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in stride.
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Mary Schwalm / Reuters Rand Paul's Maneuver Against Endless Wars
The Kentucky senator is trying to inject urgency into his effort to reassert congressional control over where the United States fights and kills.
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Reuters / Andrew Kelly Donald Trump Has Left America Less Prepared for Another 9/11
The anniversary of the attacks provides an opportunity to ponder the nation’s diminished resilience.
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Mike Segar / Reuters What Donald Trump Jr. Left Out of His Statement to Congress
The president’s son had previously insisted his father “knew nothing” about his meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters The RINO Hunters Become the Hunted
As Donald Trump sides with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer over their Republican counterparts, one of his allies lobs a telling insult at a movement conservative.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Was Charlottesville a Turning Point for the 'Alt-Right'?
A longtime observer of its online haunts argues that the hodgepodge of people united by antagonism to PC culture were irrevocably divided by the deadly violence at last month’s rally.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism
This fantastic nonfiction from 2016 is still worth discovering and pondering today.
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Joe Penney / Reuters How to Distinguish Between Antifa, White Supremacists, and Black Lives Matter
Navigating the most fraught conversation of the moment requires attention to both means and ends.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Won't Tell Americans How Many Troops He Is Risking
The president’s secrecy about deployments to war zones is hiding the extent of his broken promises.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Ivy League Scholars Urge Students: 'Think for Yourself'
As the fall semester begins, 15 professors from Yale, Princeton, and Harvard have published a letter of advice for the class of 2021.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Arpaio Pardon Is a Flagrant Assault on Civil Rights
President Trump’s pardon of the Arizona sheriff sent a signal to law enforcement that there will be no consequences for violating the Constitution when pursuing people of one ethnicity. Will voters stand for that?
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters Imagining a Better Democratic Populism
Instead of offering free college tuition, liberals might try valuing and reinvesting in other paths to success and prosperity.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Most Shortsighted Attack on Free Speech in Modern U.S. History
A faction on the left wants to weaken the free-speech rights that protect marginalized people at the very moment when doing so would help Donald Trump to persecute them.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Backs a Surge Into Afghanistan He's Unfit to Lead
It’s not simply his reversal—it’s that his record suggests he lacks the consistency to stay the course he’s charted.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Scott Adams's Nihilistic Defense of Donald Trump
The cartoonist defended the president in a podcast debate with Sam Harris. The portrait he painted of Trump supporters was not flattering.
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Justin Ide / Reuters How to Win Friends and Stigmatize Nazis
Businesses are right to fire people with heinous views. But it's important to do so under a well-defined framework.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Democrats Mount an Effort to Censure Donald Trump
The House resolution faults the president for failing to adequately condemn white supremacists “and assure the American people of his resolve to opposing domestic terrorism.”
