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Seven candidates who could save the Democrats in 2020

29 October 2019 1:51 am

Has there ever been a more cack-handed, sloppy bunch of goons than these Democratic candidates? Ancient Joe Biden looks like…

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When did Congressional testimony become performance art?

13 June 2019 1:49 am

Watching parts of the Watergate hearings again recently, I was struck by just how dry they are as a spectacle.…

Pricking the pomp of American society

4 July 2015 9:00 am

It doesn’t mean much to say that Renata Adler’s journalism isn’t as interesting as her novels — almost nothing is…