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When your cousin is the Supreme Court nominee

When your cousin is the Supreme Court nominee

Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, is my cousin.
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IdaRose SylvesterMar 17
Diagnosing Justice Garland: Use the Correct Microscope

Diagnosing Justice Garland: Use the Correct Microscope

As surely as the sun rises in the east, the instant commentators on both the Left and Right made their public pronouncements of the…
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James L.J. NuzzoMar 22
Schrodinger’s Justice

Schrodinger’s Justice

President Obama’s nomination of D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia could dramatically…
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Greg MagarianMar 22
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Yet Another Unprovable Theory About Trump’s Political Rise

Yet Another Unprovable Theory About Trump’s Political Rise

Perhaps network theory can give us the language to explain why Trump is doing so well
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Will RinehartMar 17
A Unified Theory Of Trump: Why America’s New Radical Right Is Here To Stay

A Unified Theory Of Trump: Why America’s New Radical Right Is Here To Stay

All the rich donors and all the businessmen won’t put the Republican Party back together again.
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Alexander HurstMar 15
Donald Trump and the politics of nostalgia

Donald Trump and the politics of nostalgia

Everybody’s gonna be very, very happy.
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Eric FershtmanMar 11
Embarrassment Will Make America Great Again

Embarrassment Will Make America Great Again

As the soldiers in Tim O’Brien’s classic short story “The Things They Carried” hump their burdens through Vietnam, the narrator observes,…
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Andy MozinaMar 11
How Paul Ryan will pick our next President — and his name shall be Mitt

How Paul Ryan will pick our next President — and his name shall be Mitt

It’s hidden there in plain sight, even if it hasn’t happened since the election of 1825
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adam nicholas phillipsMar 9
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Why the Sharing Economy is Good Presidential Politics

Why the Sharing Economy is Good Presidential Politics

By Gary Shapiro
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Gary ShapiroDec 18, 2015

The Republicans' Kobayashi Maru

The 2016 Republican primary has become the most game theoretically complex situation of any American Presidential contest in decades, or…
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Peter ProsolMar 3
Three Emails That Spell Trouble For Hillary Clinton

Three Emails That Spell Trouble For Hillary Clinton

News this week broke that the Justice Department has granted immunity to Bryan Pagliano, the State Department staffer who worked on Hillary…
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Rory CooperMar 3

Why The Trump Phenomenon Is So Painful

It’s hard to point to another candidacy that evokes such strong feelings from conservatives as that of Donald Trump. We, who have been let…
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Eli SteinbergFeb 29
Open Letter to the Republican Party: You Can Hate Cruz or Trump, But Not Both

Open Letter to the Republican Party: You Can Hate Cruz or Trump, But Not Both

Often a parent will tell a child, “You can pick one toy.” Sometimes the child throws a tantrum and screams, “But I want both!” If the…
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Peter ProsolFeb 28
9 Chris Christie Quotes About Donald Trump

9 Chris Christie Quotes About Donald Trump

“There are folks in this race who don’t care about what the law says because they’re used to being able to just fire people…
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Matt HigginsonFeb 26
Kill the Caucus

Kill the Caucus

I’m pissed. Not because a certain candidate won in Nevada or because I live in Washington DC and must be angry at any political class…
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Jack GerardFeb 23
What Trump Has Really Exposed About The Conservative Movement

What Trump Has Really Exposed About The Conservative Movement

There has been a lot of talk of late about what is to blame for the Trump phenomenon. Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about this, and…
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Eli SteinbergFeb 22
Republicans, You Have No One to Blame But Yourselves

Republicans, You Have No One to Blame But Yourselves

For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had…
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Matt HigginsonFeb 20
How Republicans Can Win the Supreme Court Media Battle

How Republicans Can Win the Supreme Court Media Battle

“The only winning move is not to play.” — Joshua, War Games, 1983
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Rory CooperFeb 16
What Are Jeb Bush & Others A/B Testing?

What Are Jeb Bush & Others A/B Testing?

(Not that anyone cares)
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Alhan KeserFeb 13

Does the Big Short Explain Why We Had a Financial Crisis?

Michael Lewis’ book and film, The Big Short, are exceedingly entertaining. As Lewis tells it, Wall Street financiers blew up the economy by…
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Kevin R KosarFeb 10
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