Year: 2016

Does Trumpism Have Any Shelf Life?

In one sense, I fear that Jeet Heer is correct. Once you open up Pandora’s Box, it’s not so easy to put its contents back in the container. This is a theme I’ve hit on repeatedly over the years, but it’s...

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The Karl Rove of Latin America

I really ought to go over to the dark side: Many of [Andrés] Sepúlveda’s efforts were unsuccessful, but he has enough wins that he might be able to claim as much influence over the political direction of modern Latin America as...

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The Tea Party/Teacher Union Revolt

Thomas Toch, an education specialist at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, has an interesting article in our March/April/May issue of the Washington Monthly on how the teachers’ unions and Tea...

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