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PETER PRINCIPLED
Both parties seem committed to minority status. But like Leonard Cohen said, one of them cannot be wrong.
Matt K. Lewis is a Senior Columnist at The Daily Beast and the author of Too Dumb to Fail.
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AN EGREGIOUS WRONG
Even intellectually honest liberals who support abortion rights concede it was a flawed ruling—and its effect has been to radicalize our politics.
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MAGA COUNTRY?
She has a long track record of believing stories that confirm her preferred political narratives—and she’s not the only one.
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THE $14.92 PROJECT
There’s no better time or place to be alive than in 21st century America. But a nation that can’t honestly tell its own story and find nobility in it is a nation without a future.
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FOOL’S ERRAND
Some anti-Trump Republicans say they should join the Biden wing of the Democratic Party. But it will change them more than they’ll change it.
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YOU SAY POTATOE
Quayle had been a rising star in the U.S. Senate before he became a national punchline.
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OLD SCHOOL
The self-identified “old-school liberal” is calling out today’s illiberal, intolerant left.
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TWO CHEERS
A win is a win but even if a watered-down and Manchin-authored version of the bill eventually makes its way to Biden’s desk, he’s still behind the 8-ball.
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IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
His career is actually not contingent on electoral politics in Texas but, instead, on being a progressive star in the national arena.
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LAND OF CONFUSION
A candidate in search of a message still hasn’t found one as president, beyond not being Donald Trump—and, polls show, that isn’t nearly enough.
