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The Republicans’ Cynical Strategy to Win the Jewish Vote

On Saturday, shortly after 10 a.m. on the West Coast, someone purporting to be John Earnest posted an anti-Semitic manifesto on the website 8chan, which defines itself as “the Darkest Reaches of the...

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Beto O’Rourke Won’t Demonize the Fossil Fuel Industry

Beto O’Rourke released the first significant policy proposal of his presidential campaign on Monday. “Climate change is the greatest threat we face—one which will test our country, our democracy, and...

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Democrats Have Created an “Electability” Monster

Senator Kamala Harris was supposed to be a frontrunner. According to the rules of “the invisible primary,” in which donors and party activists coalesce around their chosen nominees, sending signals...

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Werner Herzog’s Ode to Gorbachev

Werner Herzog is in love. His eyes glimmer, his smile is unforced, and his much-parodied Teutonic drone cannot conceal his affection for his subject, the ailing 87-year-old man who once ruled the...

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The Venezuela Coup’s Risky Dependence on Foreign Opinion

The Hawthorne effect refers to the tendency of individuals to behave differently when they know they’re being observed. It’s on prominent display right now in Venezuela. On April 30, National Assembly...

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Sky High Is the Only Good Superhero Movie

Today at my local United Artists megaplex there are 45 total film screenings. Thirty of those screenings are superhero movies, 24 of them Avengers alone. But even without the biggest piece of content...

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Cruel or Not, the Death Penalty Is Definitely Unusual

It came as no surprise when a Georgia jury sentenced Tiffany Moss to death on Tuesday. After three hours of deliberation, Gwinnett County jurors previously found the 36-year-old woman guilty of...

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America Needs to Hear From Robert Mueller

Attorney General Bill Barr is doing the job that President Donald Trump appointed him to do, even if it’s not the job that’s in the public’s best interest. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 488-page...

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Democrats Can Win on Immigration

We already know the kind of campaign Donald Trump will run in 2020. Sure, there will be improvisational flourishes based on who ultimately prevails from the Democrat’s battle royal—stale riffs on Joe...

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Trump’s Possibly Illegal Border Posse

Twelve days before the November 2018 midterm elections, the President of the United States ordered active-duty military forces to assist in immigration enforcement on the Southern border for the first...

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Why Aren’t Women a Bigger Force in Indian Elections?

It is the largest election in the world, with 900 million registered voters. Initiated on April 11, India’s national elections will continue until May 23. And for the first time, pollsters suggest that...

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Down and Out in the Gig Economy

In 2009, in the paranoid middle days of the recession, I enacted a boomerang-child stereotype: I moved back home into my parents’ basement. Raised in privilege (son of lawyers, private schools, no...

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Writing for the End Times

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.” So reads the opening verse in the Gospel of John—the fourth, deviant gospel—which was probably composed 70 years after the crucifixion of...

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Mighty Mouth

On the morning of July 24, Senator Joseph Biden, his face contorted with rage, stared out from the pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other newspapers. At a Senate Foreign Relations...

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The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing

Ninety-three trillion dollars is a lot of money. It’s more than the entire globe’s gross domestic product.It is also, if you ask many Republicans, how much the Green New Deal would cost over the course...

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Democrats Must Make an Example of Bill Barr

The Democrats almost got this right. On Wednesday, they shredded what little credibility Bill Barr had left during a five-hour hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee that, at times, bordered on...

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Power Plays in the Anti-Semitic Blame Game

Last month’s shooting at the Chabad of Poway, a California synagogue in a suburb about 20 miles north of San Diego, killed one woman and injured three others. Before picking up his assault-style rifle,...

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Waiting for Peak Trump

There’s a certain rhythm to Donald Trump’s presidency over the past two years. First he does something even more egregious than usual, like defend violent white nationalists or side with Russian...

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The Emptiness of Adam Gopnik’s Liberalism

When I heard last year that Adam Gopnik was writing a “stirring defense of liberalism” titled A Thousand Small Sanities, I had many questions. How would he turn liberalism into a story about his kids...

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What’s Really Behind Greece’s Demand for World War Two Reparations?

In April, Greece’s parliament voted to try to claim reparations from Germany for World War One and World War Two. This is not the first time Greece has explored the idea, which became popular during...

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