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Luke Thompson

Remembering Michael

We start friendships in our twenties that we know will be life-long. We do not expect that interval to last a decade.

6 min readJul 23, 2020

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Remembering Michael

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Luke Thompson

The Congresswoman Loves the Swamp

Her Wealthy Chief of Staff used a PAC to Pay Her Boyfriend

8 min readFeb 20, 2019

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Responsiveness or Competence: Choose One

Each occupant of the Oval Office stamps the presidency with his (to date) unique personality. Yet every West Wing resident faces a common…

4 min readJun 9, 2017

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Responsiveness or Competence: Choose One

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Luke Thompson

Orders of the Pax Americana

The Blob has whiplash. That coterie of Beltway foreign-policy experts and think-tank denizens, keepers of the bipartisan conventional…

5 min readMay 2, 2017

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Luke Thompson

Who leads, in theory and in practice

The demise of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) in March proves that failure is an orphan. The rancorous squabbling over the bill’s fate…

5 min readApr 10, 2017

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Luke Thompson

Trump as Centrist

Finding the ideological core within the bluster

2 min readOct 5, 2016

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Trump as Centrist

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Luke Thompson
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The Vanity of Power, the Power of Vanity

The First Presidential Debate

9 min readSep 27, 2016

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The Vanity of Power, the Power of Vanity

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Satisfied and Stupefied in Philly

Hillary Owns The DNC Thanks Largely to Others. What Now?

7 min readJul 29, 2016

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Satisfied and Stupefied in Philly

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The Comedy Is Finished

Dispatches from the RNC in Cleveland

11 min readJul 22, 2016

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The Comedy Is Finished

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The Charge of the Cruz Brigade

Dispatches from the RNC in Cleveland

5 min readJul 21, 2016

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The Charge of the Cruz Brigade

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Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

Politics, numbers, graphs. Recovering academic, previously with Right to Rise and NRSC. Excited to hear your thoughts in extensive detail.

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