Reihan Salam
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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.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters ‘Medicare for All’ Is a Fantasy
But the surge in support for the idea gives Republicans the chance to offer a coherent alternative.
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Gregory Bull / AP Trump and Mexico Need Each Other
From immigration to trade, the interests of the U.S. are broadly congruent with the agenda of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Master of Negation
Trump makes clear what he’s against. But unless congressional Republicans can explain to voters what they stand for, they face bleak prospects in November.
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Edmon de Haro The Next Populist Revolution Will Be Latino
Democrats are betting on a diversifying electorate to secure their party’s future, but second-generation Latinos won’t willingly accept a deeply unequal society.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Utility of White-Bashing
It’s a rhetoric that serves a purpose—which is why it’s not likely to disappear.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Trump Is Squeezing the Koch Network Out of the GOP
Caught between surging populism on the right and the rise of democratic socialism on the left, the libertarian donor group has plenty of cash, but little popular support.
