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My Father Left Me Ireland Connects Broken Homes to Broken Nations
A review of My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search for Home,
by Michael Brendan Dougherty.
A Cost-of-Living Agenda
The editors’ critique of Elizabeth Warren’s student-debt proposal seems exactly right to me, and comments from others around here have also hit the mark. I’d only add that this proposal, ...
Another Warning Sign
The Mueller report is a window into the manner of administration that characterizes the Trump era.
More Than Immigration
The departure of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is clearly all about immigration. Her views are apparently in tension with the president’s on some key border-enforcement questions, such questions are ...
Correcting the Record on the Electoral College
In a recent book, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz repeated the argument that the electoral college was intended by the framers to empower the slave states of the south, and therefore ...
A Word for the Filibuster
In our time even more than usual, Congress should be designed to require and compel accommodation.
Constitutional Kabuki: Health Care Edition
On Monday, the Trump Administration formally changed its position in ongoing litigation about the future of Obamacare.
The Barr Letter Interlude
We are not at the end of the Mueller drama. We are in an interlude created by Barr’s decision to summarize the report for the public before releasing it.
Spring Reading
Spring has sprung, and with it the Spring 2019 issue of National Affairs. Among the offerings this time:
Oren Cass with two cheers for dynamism
Ryan Streeter on the politics ...