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Trump is a kingmaker but at what cost to the GOP?

If you can’t be a king, goes an old nugget of political wisdom, be a kingmaker. Former President…

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The path forward

On the one hand, you could judge American democracy to be quite healthy. In November, we had our…

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For Trump: What might have been

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’ ” –…

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Pro-Trump protesters can be thieves, too

“Protesters? Sorry, they look like looters to me.” That was how I responded last summer when a Black…

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The conservative’s bad bargain

The mob violence that occurred Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol was deplorable and disgusting. It is the antithesis…

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This is all Trump’s fault

At his Georgia rally Monday night, President Donald Trump predicted the state’s Senate runoffs: “If (Republicans) lose, they’re…

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Politics in 2021 — Will the blurring of reality and fantasy continue?

President Donald Trump is on his way out of the White House, but not much else seems as…

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Two cheerleaders and the F-I-G-H-T for free speech

In some ways, it makes perfect sense that the future of free speech on the internet could turn…

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In hoc anno domini

When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay…

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After Trump, what (and who) for the GOP?

At the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., delivered a speech following his…