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August 2024

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…Republican Style
The Good:
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Lawrence Goldstone
The Warrior Queen and the Clown King
Even before Kamala Harris began her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, her campaign made clear to Donald Trump against whom he…
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Freedom’s Just Another Word Republicans Shouldn’t Use
For decades, Republicans won the slogan war, and the contest was not close. Phrases such as “death tax,” “pro-life,” and more recently “woke politics…
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The Mouth That Bored
Anyone who forced themselves to sit through Donald Trump’s August 15, “press conference,” in which, from a patio in his private golf club in Bedminster…
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Two Barometers of Panic
The news has been rife with tales of the Trump campaign’s inability to thwart the momentum of the woman who might go down in history as an all-time…
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A Slamdance, Not a Wal(t)z
There has been a good deal of speculation about how and why Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz for her running mate. There were the usual criteria of…
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Algebra and Calculus: Trump and Harris
Now that the contest for the presidency has again become an actual contest, Americans are tuning in more obsessively to pundits and especially pollsters…
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July 2024

Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Pitfalls of Inflexibility
From the moment in 1973 when Roy Cohn was retained to defend the Trump family in a suit brought by the Department of Justice alleging racist rental…
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Passion and Polling
As just about every commentator has noted, Joe Biden’s decision to abandon his bid for re-election has rebooted the presidential election. While Biden’s…
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Kamala is Far From the Best Candidate…But She Can Win
Now that Joe Biden has allowed himself to be dragged off the stage, his fingernails scraping the floor, Democrats can turn their attention as to whether…
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