Open or closed political primaries? Tennessee Republicans stand at a crossroads. One path narrows the electorate in pursuit of ideological […]
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Political parties do not collapse all at once. They shrink slowly, quietly, and often with a kind of strange pride.
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Revised and Updated Paperback Edition Arrives November 22 November 22 marks an anniversary worth remembering. On that day in 1787,
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How the Bork hearings turned the Supreme Court into a partisan stage When Senator Ted Kennedy rose on the Senate
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A new talking point circulates through certain corners of the Internet: America is a nation of settlers, not immigrants. The
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Free speech under fire: what Charlie Kirk’s murder reveals about us, not them. I am a conservative and a Republican.
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Preface I hesitated to write this post. Conversations about race carry deep history and emotion, and as a white American,
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