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How Trump Affected Political Correctness

The President’s assault on P.C. was at least partly successful. That is both good and bad.

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Why Hasn’t Trump Condemned Erdogan’s Provocation?

The President fashions himself a Jacksonian. Will he allow the Turkish attack on American citizens to go unanswered?

washington maelstrom
After Mueller, Trump Critics Worry: Maybe There’s No Scandal

Trump’s most dogged critics are anxious that Mueller won’t uncover enough damaging material to bring down the President.

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Democrats Push Left as Midterm Campaigns Approach

If you thought that Donald Trump’s victory would impel the Democrats to pivot even modestly toward the center, think again.

social order
Liberals Won the Culture Wars. What Comes Next?

Liberals are continuing to get the better of conservatives on a range of long-running moral debates, according to a new Gallup survey.

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Is the Comey Firing Proof of a Smoking Gun?

Given what we know right now, probably not. But that in no way diminishes the consequences Donal Trump’s decision will have, both within the United States and beyond our borders.

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vital center
Free Speech and the Nationalist-Globalist Clash

Pure cosmopolitanism, despite its pretensions to openness, is actually in tension with America’s free speech tradition.

Policy Shop
The High-End Tax Break That Needs to Go

Capping the state and local tax deduction would improve the quality of blue state governance.

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Liberals Are Just as Biased as Conservatives, Study Finds

Political bias is not a conservative trait, it turns out, but a human one, and it afflicts both sides in equal measure.

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Donald Trump's World
The Case for Placebo Politics

It may not be the worst thing for some of America’s political energies to be redirected to the realm of style and symbolism.

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