Year: 2016

They Shot Hippies, Didn’t They?

There’s a new book out by Howard Means on the 1970 Kent State University massacre: 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence. In our March/April/May issue of the Washington Monthly, Michael O’Donnell was...

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Is trade a new Third Rail for voters?

https:/www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/03/28/this-one-anecdote-perfectly-explains-how-donald-trump-is-hijacking-the-gop …Trump is succeeding in part because he’s offering economically struggling GOP...

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Serious Question

When it comes to the electability argument, which do you think is bigger? The subset of the electorate that is normally in the Republican corner but is appalled enough by Trump to crossover and help Hillary Clinton win, or the...

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