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December 1985 Issue
December 1985 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Case Against Credentialism
    James Fallows
  • High-Tech Tv
    Peter W. Mitchell
  • The Moral Equivalent of Defeat
    Chalmers Johnson
  • The Last Word
    Peter Davison
  • The Arctic World
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Old Gringo
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

Minority Report

Ignored by their President, ill-used by their Democratic colleagues, House Republicans are in a mutinous mood

By Norman J. Ornstein
December 1985 Issue
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