Month: August 2018

Weak Democratic Affiliates Should Be a Focus

There’s plenty of interesting information in the data collected by the National Opinion Research Center during their latest nationwide survey. The headline takeaway is that Trump’s base of support is weaker than it...

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Cruz-O’Rourke in a Toss-Up Race

I have already expressed my opinion that the Senate election in Texas between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke is a toss-up, by which I mean that by election day no one will be able to confidently predict the winner. But there...

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America Restores Sanctions on Iran

Here is the most irresponsible thing that the Trump administration did today. The Trump administration on Monday moved to reimpose the first round of Iranian trade sanctions that had been suspended under the 2015 nuclear...

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Burnt Shadows

If Burnt Shadows were nothing more than a big, bold, sprawling novel crossing generations and continents from the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945 to the wrenching Partition of India and Pakistan on Aug....

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