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Toward a political history of the last 75 years

New Year’s Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is...

Five hopes for 2025

New Year‘s Day inspires hope with the promise of a fresh start. In that spirit, we have identified five identifiable goals that we hope...

Timothee Chalamet’s Bob Dylan rejects communist activists

I walked into James Mangold’s new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, which adapts Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric!, with low expectations, largely because it seemed...

Jimmy Carter’s 1976 primary campaign was a master class in political strategy

Amid all the reminiscences this week about former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, surprisingly little attention has focused...

Democrats are to blame for record homelessness

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has found there is now a record number of homeless people in the United States. Liberal policies are...

In backing Mike Johnson, Trump rightly wants to avoid a mess

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has no doubt had a turbulent year as the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives,...

Turkey tries to skirt F-35 fighter jet ban

In July 2019, during the twilight of the first Trump administration, the Defense Department kicked Turkey out of the F-35 joint strike fighter program....

Will Trump see reduced minority crime victimization, again?

A recent study examining the government’s annual National Crime Victimization Survey reports that, during the Obama administration, “minorities, especially Black Americans … experienced high and volatile victimization rates.”...

Those we will miss from 2024

It is easy for newspapers to pen dry remembrances of significant people who died in the past year, but it is harder and more...

Jimmy Carter is gone and his legacy is better than most of us realize

In March 1976, Time magazine profiled a Democratic governor from Georgia who was making a long-shot bid for the presidency. A former peanut farmer,...
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