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In the waning days of 2016, liberal late-night hosts took to meeting with their counterparts in the conservative entertainment complex. “The Daily Show’s” Trevor Noah argued with The Blaze’s Tomi Lahr

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If the polls are correct, many disaffected Republicans are making their peace with Donald Trump in the final hours of the 2016 campaign. The usual term for this process is “returning home.” This time,

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Share Many conservatives are trying to figure out how Ronald Reagan’s conservative movement can best advance its aims in Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Some believe the conservative movement must em

In a living room in western Pennsylvania, the Republican National Convention was on TV, and Melanie Austin was getting impatient. “Who’s that guy?” she said, watching some billionaire talk about prosp

This piece was published in Christianity Today on September 8, 2016. Reposted with permission. I have not publicly endorsed a presidential candidate in 44 years. But this year—the most important presi

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THE horns have sounded and the hounds are baying. Across the developed world the hunt for more taxes from the wealthy is on. Recent austerity budgets in France and Italy slapped 3% surcharges on those

Let me tell you the story of an "unskilled" worker in America who lived better than most of today’s college graduates. In the winter of 1965, Rob Stanley graduated from Chicago Vocational High School,

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Racial Justice Investigating America’s racial divide in education, housing and beyond. This story is not subject to our Creative Commons license. Though James Dent could watch Central High School’s ho

The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experi

Back in 2008, Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich wrote an article for this magazine making a conservative case for Barack Obama. While much of it was based on disgust with the warmongering an

The drones came for Ayman Zawahiri on 13 January 2006, hovering over a village in Pakistan called Damadola . Ten months later, they came again for the man who would become al-Qaida’s leader, this time