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Conservative partisans and activists should have learned a blunt lesson about political power and how it’s exercised in the United States in…
I tell my students that the best way to figure out what’s really going on in the political world is to take…
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Liberals in Congress and in the general public have allowed their blind devotion to Obama obscure their understanding of the dramatic parallels…
Many are thinking about the Tea Party and its relationship (or lack thereof) with Occupy Wall Street. I’ve received numerous complaints from…
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