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1. Almost exactly a year ago Joe Biden said, "With Donald Trump out of the White House—not a joke—you will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends.”

1. With Liz Cheney's pushed out of GOP leadership, worth remembering just months ago she was a super-star. Last November Politico wrote of her prospects to be Speaker or even

1. In 1991, the 22-year old Tucker Carlson described himself in his college yearbook as a member of the Dan White Society. White was the homophobe who in 1978 assassinated

This bad cold I have isn't being helped by me constantly screaming about how badly the House of Windsor treated Princess Diana. I'm going to have to rethink things. In

1. Thinking more on last night's debate, one big problem Trump has is that he's never clearly defined Joe Biden. Is Biden the career politician who hasn't done anything to

1. It is a good passage but I'm not sure that it does the work Douthat wants it to in rebutting the idea that Trumpism is authoritarian. Worth remember what

1. Great moments in the history of footnoting, a series.https://twitter.com/KaraSchlichting/status/1126489858023854080 2. Great moments in the history of footnoting, con't.https://twitter.com/amyplusthree/status/1314559746884673537 3. G

1. So. Richard Hofstadter. Where to start? 2. People have asked me why I'm obsessed with the late historian Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970). The short answer is that he's emblematic of

1. The "nothing matters" response to scandals is particularly shortsighted because politics is a war of attrition carried on multiple fronts. The tax thing alone is not enough to sink

1. I've been reading some Raymond Chandler lately & it clarified something that is maybe obvious to everyone else but had never occurred to me: that pervasive police corruption was

Hypothesis: All memoirs by right-wing pundits are attempts to answer the question, "why does no one like me?" See: Toby Young's How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Barbara Amiel's

1. The attacks on Biden's religion point to an insufficiently discussed part of the culture war -- the difference between liberal Christians and Christian nationalists.https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1299026946446315520 2. Biden actua