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Our common associations — a common language, history, culture and land — matter a great deal, and acknowledging as much isn't quasi-fascism.

Over-the-top attacks on Trump haven't been incidental to the Democratic 2024 campaign, but central to it.
Democrats should have known what they had in Biden.
All this was avoidable if Joe and Jill Biden had had the foresight and public-spiritedness to decide last year that he wasn't up for another presidential campaign.

It is very fitting that Smith's appointment as special counsel may itself be constitutionally defective.
The Michigan governor would be a much tougher opponent for Trump on paper.
Trump's goal should be to continue to feed the Trump nostalgia that has been the defining feature of the early stages of the race.
Today, the movie probably wouldn't be made since it's such a flagrant act of cultural appropriation.
Most of the pro-Hamas actions are on the order of a KKK rally.
While everyone would prefer that every military operation were completely antiseptic, that's not how the world works.

The charge that Republicans are somehow working to cut off access to contraception amounts to an outlandish conspiracy theory.
Who knows if she will eventually be the GOAT of the WNBA, but she's certainly not the villain.

The administration that made "Build Back Better" the catchphrase of its economic agenda turns out not to be any good at building.

Even the most hard-bitten, cynical political operative would have been hard-pressed to imagine a way to keep an opponent off the campaign trail entirely.
This year they could prove too politically independent-minded.
Even if we wanted to keep space weapons-free, space is already a domain central to modern military operations.
The verdict regarding Butker's address should be — good from 55 yards.
He has shown that it's impossible to be all things to all people, but it is possible to convince most of them that you don't know what you're doing.

A weathervane doesn't affect how fast the wind is blowing or in what direction; it just shifts in reaction to larger forces.
The disorder of 1968 played right into the hands of Nixon, who rode his opposition to the riots and campus unrest into the White House.