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Shawn Fain Is Killing It
In office all of 13 months, the United Auto Workers president is transforming American labor. I'll have what he's eating.
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Timothy Noah
Hollywood (and America) Had A Nervous Breakdown About Sex Right About 1958
We Baby Boomers have lived through more orthodoxies on this topic than anybody in history. So, please, cut us a little slack.
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Who's Afraid of the Administrative State?
My new piece in Liberties Journal corrects some bogus history about regulation. Also, a new theory says boosting interest rates STIMULATES economic…
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Democrats Never Win the White House When the Working Class Votes Republican
That's been true for 100 years, with one exception, and Mr. Exception would be foolhardy to count on it happening again.
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The Heat Stroke Lobby
Introducing a grotesque new powerhouse in Republican politics.
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The Gun-Show Loophole Is Not Gone
You heard it here first.
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The Youth Vote Has Never Been A Thing
It isn't just this generation of young people. ALL generations of young people, going back at least as far as 1972, can't seem to get themselves to the…
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Trump's Financial Train Wreck Is So Much More Interesting Than His Campaign
From a shame-inducing Truth Social SEC filing to hocking himself to L.A.'s leading repo man, it's been an exciting week And it's still only Tuesday!
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The Only Reason to Fear Trump's Return to Power, the Respectable Right Says, Is ... You Won't Believe How Stupid This Is.
Hint: Everything is the Democrats' fault.
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March 2024

If Truth Social Is Worth $8 Billion, MAGA Ain't "Populist."
It's free to join Truth Social, the Pravda of MAGA, yet nobody wants to. It's expensive to buy stock in Truth Social, the Pravda of MAGA, yet everybody…
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Donald Trump on the Cross
Pardon the blasphemy, but it's Trump's, not mine.
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Trump Is Treated Differently Because He Insists on Being Treated Differently
When the authorities try to treat him like everybody else, he refuses to play along.
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