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The New York Times: A Century of Failure

There is a temptation to treat what the New York Times has done since October 7, 2023, as a modern phenomenon, a product of social media pressure, activist newsrooms, and the politics of a particular cultural moment.

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Will the Real Thomas Massie Please Stand Up

In March 2017, five years into a congressional career he had originally promised to limit to three terms, Thomas Massie sat down with the Washington Examiner and offered an unusually candid analysis of his own political base.

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Chris Murphy and the Tehran Whisperer

On the evening of April 20, 2026, with American sailors enforcing a naval blockade of Iran in the middle of an active war, United States Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut pulled up his phone and typed a single word in response to a report that 26 Iranian shadow fleet vessels ha…

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The Long Game Part Deux: The Unholy Alliance

In The Long Game, I documented what is being done to evangelical Protestant America, the systematic theological demolition of the base that has powered American conservative electoral success for seventy years.

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