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May 31, 2023 5:30 am

Cormac McCarthy and the World’s Horrible Unknowability

His new novels deserve to be remembered as the literary event of the last decade.
Bill Ryan
May 30, 2023 5:30 am

Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems

Across the country, Republican legislatures and governors are blazing a path of regress in a world of make-believe.
Bill Lueders
May 27, 2023 5:30 am

“We Owe Them Something”

Editor’s note: What follows are President Reagan’s remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in 1986.

Today…

Ronald Reagan
May 27, 2023 5:30 am

“To Fight Out a War, You Must Believe Something”

Editor’s note: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. delivered this address to a group of Civil War veterans in Keene, New Hampshire,…

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
May 26, 2023 5:30 am

SCOTUS Does WOTUS

As the Supreme Court rules on ‘waters of the United States,’ it’s worth remembering how water issues have shaped our…
Daniel McGraw
May 25, 2023 5:30 am

The Right-Wing Embrace of Bloodlust

Daniel Penny and Daniel Perry have similar names, and bloodthirsty fans.
Bill Lueders
May 22, 2023 5:30 am

Why Trump Wants U.S. to Default on Debt

And why Biden now says he’s “looking at” invoking the Fourteenth Amendment.
Dennis Aftergut
May 22, 2023 5:30 am

Martin Amis, 1949–2023

A craftsman whose abhorrence of cliché helped create greatness.
Bill Ryan
May 18, 2023 5:30 am

Is the Belarusian Dictatorship Doomed?

The United States and its European Allies must prepare to replace a European dictator with a democracy.
Eric Edelman, Vlad Kobets, and David J. Kramer
May 17, 2023 5:30 am

A Ray of Bipartisan Hope in Wisconsin

After years of state GOP skulduggery, some Republican lawmakers have become willing make common cause with Democrats on election oversight.
Bill Lueders