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2024 presidential election

The First Punch

by Matthew Karp,

How does History move? A generation ago, in the Nineties, it seemed to have forgotten how: perhaps, as Elijah mocked the prophets of Baal, History was on a journey, or…

Revenge Plot

by Lauren Oyler,

The GOP’s identity crisis

Power Lines

by Matthew Karp,

“The American political scene,” wrote Perry Anderson in 2013, “is conventionally depicted in high colour.” According to conventional—that is, liberal—observers in the Bush and Obama years, America “cartwheeled from brutish…

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