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Jeb Bush confirms that Republican opposition to Trump isn’t about his racism at all
Bush endorsed Ted Cruz a day after Cruz backed racial profiling of Muslims. By Dylan Matthews.
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The lost magic of England
The great conservative journalist Peregrine Worsthorne reflects on a long life at the heart of the establishment. By Jason Cowley.
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Who Birthed the Anti-Trans Bathroom Panic?
Conservatives and religious groups are borrowing myths about transgender people from feminists. By Melissa Gira Grant.
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End of the End of History, Redux
Remember Perot? By Frank Guan.
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Let’s End America’s Hopeless War for the Middle East
Our country’s longest war is unwinnable, and we have more important things to do. By Andrew J. Bacevich.
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A Champion of Japan’s Right Wing Is Jailed Over Campaign Payments
Toshio Tamogami, a deeply conservative former military commander turned politician, is accused of making illegal payments to members of his staff. By Jonathan Soble.
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John Boehner just confirmed everything liberals suspected about the Republican Party
Boehner is validating one of the most persistent and controversial critiques of the modern Republican Party. And he has the authority to do so.
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T.S. Eliot, Poet for a Fallen Culture
“Reduced to its barest elements, modernity is the substitution of science for theology, history for philosophy, and the self for the soul. Eliot had little patience with the pretensions of science, but even he was not fully able to escape the other two....” By Joseph Bottum.
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Miracles and Mummeries
Antonin Scalia and American Religion. By George Blaustein.
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How an obscure Senate aide became Trump’s intellectual architect
How Stephen Miller went from obscure Capitol Hill staffer to Donald Trump’s warm-up act—and resident ideologue. By Julia Ioffe.
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Who’s the Libertarian Now?
Gary Johnson is the anti-Ron Paul. By Justin Raimondo.
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Why Trump Was Inevitable
Donald Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants and Muslims have been at the center of his campaign. And his pronouncements on these topics have greatly concerned many Republican leaders and elected officials who feared they would harm the party’s image and damage its electoral prospects. But how did his positions and comments play with Republican primary voters? The clear answer is that they reflected the views of likely Republican voters extremely well. By Ronald B. Rapoport, Alan I. Abramowitz, and Walter J. Stone. (June 23, 2016)
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How Trump Can Save the G.O.P.
As the Republican National Convention nears, there is growing talk of a palace — or party — coup to wrest the nomination from Donald J. Trump, or at least stage a public protest against him. By Sam Tanenhaus.
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They could have picked...
Last January, the unpronounceable Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, surveying his party’s throng of presidential aspirants, tweeted: ‘It’s clear we’ve got the most well-qualified and diverse field of candidates from any party in history.’ Why, the world wonders, did they end up with Donald Trump as their nominee? By Eliot Weinberger.
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The Civil War that Could Doom the N.R.A.
As the tragic pattern of gun violence continues, the N.R.A. faces a genuine threat to its future: a growing divide between its ferocious leadership and sportsman rank-and-file. By Sarah Ellison.
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Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater (2006)
Julie Anderson
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Donald Trump’s Tiff With Paul Ryan Symbolizes Growing Divisions in the GOP Over Corporate Power
Paul Ryan’s primary opponent says a vote for him is “a vote for every person who never got to go out for a steak dinner with lobbyists for the Chamber of Commerce.” By Zaid Jilani.
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It’s the End of the @GOP as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Quote By A Smart Person: “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” — Jeanette Rankin. Welcome to the American Singularity. By Reed Galen.
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If Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are “Progressive,” Then the Word Has Lost All Meaning
How the term ‘progressive’ became an empty marketing tool for corporate Democrats. By Kathleen Geier.
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Good Enough for Government Work
Conservatism in the tank. By Jim Newell.
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