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The Liberal Patriot Shuts Its Doors
The prophetic, under-appreciated, and altogether invaluable publication The Liberal Patriot is shutting its doors, the funding having dried up like a…
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The Conservatives of Conscience, 2024
As in 2020, hundreds of prominent Republicans are endorsing the Democratic candidate for President, an unprecedented effort to convey the existential…
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The Passion of Mayor Pete
The failure of progressives to rally around the young candidate in 2020 continues to haunt some Americans as a historic missed opportunity.
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Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, introduces January's cover story, another must-read from Barton Gellman: Stating plainly that one of America’s…
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Fiddling While Democracy Burns
Don't miss this must-read from Princeton historian Sean Wilentz. May Senator Joe Manchin absorb it on his house-yacht Almost Heaven, and consult his…
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“The Genie Is Out Of The Bottle”: A Warning From A Survivor Of The Bosnian War
Mirsada Burić ran her way out of a civil war. She was twenty-two years old and living in Sarajevo when, in 1992, she was chosen to represent Bosnia and…
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The Conservatives of Conscience
In the tradition of leaders across history who stood up for truth amid the fog of tribalism—and who refused to be complicit in the face of evil—hundreds…
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John Clarke Whitaker
Tales from an asymmetrically polarized America
Featured Work
The Legacy Of Srebrenica, Twenty Years Later
A Thousand Miles For The Right To Vote
“The Genie Is Out Of The Bottle”: A Warning From A Survivor Of The Bosnian War
The Conservatives Of Conscience
Twenty Years Of Fox News
Disobedience Comes To The Capitol
The New Whitney Looks To The Future
Live From New York, It's Flo Fox
Peaches On A Friday Afternoon
The Chicken Who Killed Colonel Sanders

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