Year: 2016

Trump’s Supreme Court Pleas Fall on Deaf Ears

Folks over at Red State are unimpressed and unconvinced by Donald Trump’s insistence that Republicans have “no choice” but to vote for him because of concern about the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court....

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The Brexit Negotiation process

A reader who wishes to remain anonymous writes (By email): Is it yet clear what the process for British Exit is and what is to be negotiated?” UK politicians seem to depict a different view of what is involved than the EU...

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The Convention Showed Democratic Confidence

Over the last two days of the Democratic convention the primaries began to slide into largely forgettable history and glimpses of the near-future began to snap into place. What had been largely a conversation about the...

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Odds & Ends: Hillary’s Big Night

Back in our July/August 2005 issue, we aired a debate about Hillary Clinton’s electability as a presidential candidate. Carl M. Cannon said she could win and Amy Sullivan argued that, while it was not proven that she could...

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The Counterculture Becomes Mainstream

Various commentators, including Joe Klein and Jonathan Chait, have noted that the Democratic convention is much less about what’s wrong with America, whether that’s rising income inequality or the climate crisis or...

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