Politics

A collage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a pro-Palestinian protester
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The Left’s Self-Defeating Israel Obsession

Taking an extreme position, then demanding total orthodoxy, does no favors for democratic socialism in America.

J. D. Vance and Abraham Lincoln
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Hillbilly Excuses

J. D. Vance champions the narrative he once attacked.

A picture of the Revolutionary War, with silhouette of J. D. Vance's face cut in the middle
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J. D. Vance’s Empty Nationalism

To believe that “people will not fight for abstractions” is to forget what makes America special.