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When money doesn’t matter

In elective politics, it’s always better to have more money than your opponent. But it can’t buy you an election victory.

25.06.2025 3

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All aboard the Trump clemency train

Pardons, especially high-profile ones, ordinarily come in the last hours of a presidential administration. Trump has defied that norm.

18.06.2025 7

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What the Whigs can teach us

The 19th-century Whigs present an appealing prototype for moderate Democrats seeking a way out of their paralysis and for Republicans impatient with,...

21.05.2025 3

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Trump’s call to rename war commemorations diminishes America’s military legacy

Trump’s proposed name changes undermine the generations-long obligation to the veterans and war dead who have borne the battle.

07.05.2025 20

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Trump at (trade) war

The Constitution makes plain that trade policy is the province of Congress, but Trump hasn’t been reading congressional leaders into his plans, let...

16.04.2025 2

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Eisenhower’s warning echoes in today’s Naval Academy book ban

Removing books about the Holocaust and the Black experience in the United States strikes at the heart of the academy’s professed purpose.

10.04.2025 9

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‘Shocking, irresponsible, inexplicable’: 3 writers on Signalgate

The White House denies that classified information was shared when The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group text thread with the...

01.04.2025 3

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Musk and Trump: Imperfect together?

We asked three writers to weigh in: How long will the relationship between Elon Musk and President Trump last?

12.03.2025 2

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For dual citizens like me, the US-Canada trade war is personal

The son of a Massachusetts father and a Montreal mother, I am literally the product of Canadian-American relations.

06.03.2025 6

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Canada is worried the United States is coming undone

Our dysfunctional democracy is much on the mind of our well-mannered neighbors to the north.

18.09.2024 1

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The year of chaos

Of all the remarkable things about the summer of 2024, none may be more remarkable than this: How swiftly the current Big Thing is superseded by...

24.07.2024 1

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