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The Gerontocracy Must End: Why America Needs Leaders Who’ll Live Long Enough to Face the Consequences of Their Decisions
The debate over age limits for politicians has never been more urgent. Here’s something nobody wants to say out loud at Thanksgiving dinner: we’ve let nursing home residents run the nuclear arsenal…
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America Was Always Great — But We Keep Forgetting What That Means
America was always great — but have we forgotten what made it so? There’s a phrase that’s been rattling around our politics for nearly a decade now, and it rests on a…
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The Art of the Settlement: Trump’s IRS Battle and the $1.7 Billion Question Nobody’s Asking
The Trump IRS settlement is one of those moments in politics when the machinery of government produces an outcome so perplexing that even seasoned observers pause. The Trump family's ongoing legal entanglement…
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America’s Always Been Great — Now Rise to Show It
Americas always been great — messy, loud, imperfect, but striving. Here’s what I know about America that keeps me up at night: We’ve always been messy. We’ve always been loud. We’ve always…
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The Architecture of Untruth: How False Narratives Became a Governing Strategy
False narratives governing strategy has become a defining feature of modern American politics. There’s a pattern here. It repeats with such regularity that you can set your watch by it. A problem…
