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Angle to Montgomery

Justin Barkley and I met as freshmen in college. He was the soft-spoken kid with an Alabama accent who lived down the hall. His roommates were all jocks of one…

Tears for Fears

by Thomas Frank,

One of the many poignant glimpses of midcentury America afforded me by a fiftieth-anniversary reading of the Warren Report was the story of an ephemeral conservative organization called the American…

Donkey Business

by Thomas Frank,

That the Republican Party has worked its way to a lonely and unpopular place is not news. The G.O.P.’s congressional wing has been moving rightward since the 1980s, and in…

In Search of the Right to Vote

by Victoria Bassetti,

From Electoral Dysfunction, released in September by the New Press, in conjunction with a PBS documentary of the same name. The right of voting for representatives is the primary…