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Campaign Finance
Donald Trump, John Edwards, and the Mistress Loophole

Maybe Rudy Giuliani knows what he’s doing after all.

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Strategy and Policy
Let’s Dance the Machiavelli

Some unsolicited advice for America’s Prince, Donald Trump: Ignore the whining “globalists.” So what if your policies cost jobs and batter America’s standing? Go with the Florentine maestro of hardball politics: it’s better to be feared than loved.

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Middle East Watch
Hezbollah After Lebanon’s Elections

Hezbollah’s victory in Sunday’s Lebanese elections is virtually guaranteed—but there are signs that discontent is growing among its support base.

Blissfully-dangerously-intentionally ignorant
The Alt-Ostrich Movement

Informed judgment is so rare in Washington there is a prize for it.

Vox Populi
Revisiting Hofstadter’s Populism

It’s held up better than you might think.

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"Community of Values"
The EU’s Looming Existential Choice

The European Union must brace itself for more confrontations over the enforcement of its liberal democratic standards—even if that forces a fundamental reckoning with its identity.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art and Truth
The Faces of Cézanne

The portraits of the master, collected for the first time since his death, offer an antidote to preoccupations with our self-images.

Radio Azadi Collection, Library of Congress (049.00.00)
Killing in Kabul
Voices from Afghanistan

In the midst of tragedy, it’s worth recalling how journalists in Afghanistan risk their lives daily for decency, tolerance, and peace.

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China and the US
The National Security State of the Future

How economic competition with China could cause the United States to resemble its adversary.

Whore of Power
Curzio Malaparte, Mon Amour

Mussolini’s Michael Wolff is the writer to rediscover for the Trump era.

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