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When the Tide Comes In
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the G-File. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.
Dear Reader,
“Save Ike from the Kikes.”
I’d better explain.
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the Nazi troll armies’ march ...
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Nancy Pelosi Is Damaging Democrats’ Takeover Chances
Will Democrats pull an “October Surprise” this year and announce that the highly polarizing Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco won’t be their candidate for House speaker after all? Growing up in the Bay Area, I saw Pelosi’s iron will and stubbornness up close for decades. The possibility of her stepping back ...
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Celebrity Activists Do Not Help
Michelle Williams, an actress, has decided to become a spokesman on the issue of pay inequality in her profession, and appears this month on the cover of Vanity Fair with a headline to that effect.
This decision follows what she describes as a humiliating episode in which she learned in the pages of USA Today ...
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Corey Stewart’s Flailing Virginia Campaign
Corey Stewart has had a rough few weeks.
Stewart, the Republican nominee challenging incumbent Democratic senator Tim Kaine in Virginia this fall, has come under sustained fire lately as news outlets have uncovered disturbing past comments from his campaign staff and from Stewart himself — shedding new light ...
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Of Course There Is Such a Thing as a ‘Perjury Trap’
Studies will someday be done on the deleterious effect Donald Trump has had on the brains of people who loathe him. It drives them to say things that are as palpably foolish as some of the president’s own doozies. This week’s winner: There is no such thing as a “perjury trap.”
Because some of the ...
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The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
Editor’s Note: The following piece originally appeared at e21. It is adapted here with permission.
Two weeks ago, the Mercatus Center published my estimates of the cost of the Medicare-for-All (M4A) bill introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) along with 16 co-sponsors. Although my ...
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