Reihan Salam
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Gavin Newsom’s Big Idea
The California governor is pulling the plug on a boondoggle and focusing on a plan that could secure the future of his state.
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AP Trump’s Revealing Immigration Ad Lib
Is the president ready to strike a compromise deal?
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters What Tom Brokaw Got Wrong About Assimilation
It’s not how hard immigrants work that determines whether they are incorporated into the mainstream or consigned to the margins of American society.
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Carlos Allegri / Reuters Ron DeSantis Is Showing the GOP a Different Path Forward
As Trump continues to fixate on a border wall, the new governor of Florida is choosing to focus on more substantive issues.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Bill de Blasio and Gavin Newsom May Give Restrictionism New Life
The two Democratic politicians are trying to extend the safety net to include unauthorized immigrants—a move that may ultimately backfire on them.
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Agencja Gazeta / Reuters Democrats Are Wrong About Defense Spending
The need for investment is only likely to grow in the coming years.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters How Trump Can Challenge China
There’s a key vulnerability the president can exploit—aligning himself with the Chinese people and against the party-state.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters Trump's Unacknowledged Victory in Stemming the Flow of Asylum Seekers
A tacit agreement with Mexico could have a major impact.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump Needs a Secretary of Defense Who Agrees With Him
The president wants to withdraw from foreign military adventures. To pull that off, he’ll require a secretary who actually thinks he’s right.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters An Unexpected Solution to the Migrant Crisis
One potential means of easing the border crisis between the U.S. and Mexico comes from an unlikely place: Medicare regulations.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The New GOP Coalition Is Emerging
In the wake of an upper-middle-class exodus, the Republican Party needs to win working-class voters—or it will lose its grip on power.
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters The Virtues of Nationalism
Can civic equality and national unity prove mutually reinforcing?
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters The Fate of Trumpism Rests on the TIGRs
Trump won office by insisting he was a different kind of Republican. But Tuesday’s elections provided a warning—he needs to win back the voters who made him president.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters The Solution to the Caravan Crisis Is in Honduras
The Honduran government briefly considered creating a “charter city” to which migrants could freely move. They should have gone through with it.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Elite Universities Are Entrenching a Privileged Class. An Endowment Tax Can Fix That.
The tax has been attacked as cynical and pointless. In truth, it didn’t go far enough.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Taylor Swift Succumbs to Competitive Wokeness
The pop star has long avoided partisan politicking—but in the culture industries, making a show of social liberalism is increasingly the only option.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Is China or Russia America’s Defining Rival?
The debate doesn’t just have consequences for U.S. foreign policy—it will define the next decades of domestic affairs as well.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters Elite Law Schools Turn Against Conservatism
Affluent, highly-educated enclaves are moving sharply leftward, curtailing the space for pluralism.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Trump Can Strike Back at the Deep State
If the president fears his own appointees are working against him, he needs to offer a clear agenda that will force them to follow his lead—or else resign.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters A Better Way to Absorb Refugees
Affluent city dwellers are some of the most vocal champions of refugee admission—and they’re in a position to assist.
