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And why Democrats shouldn’t try to “out-cowboy” Donald Trump. By Patrick Healy and Tressie McMillan Cottom Produced by Vishakha Darbha President Trump’s outsize performance of masculinity has won him ...

During my years as a Ph.D. student, I found myself for the first time in a familiar routine. For four years, my life settled into a predictable rhythm—weekly meetings with my supervisor, seminars to ...

Get ready for a 2016 redux. The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey made public on Thursday is likely to put on display, yet again, the blockbuster political discourse around the FBI ...

Source: “The Temptation of Christ” (Public Domain, Artist Unknown), meme created by Megha Arora . Politics often seems like cheerleading. The metaphor is apt, for cheerleading is about signaling and ...

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Journal Editorial Report: The President warns of economic ‘devastation’ if the Justices rule against him. That big-labor bosses favor Democratic candidates isn’t news, but some unionized workers might ...

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You might be imagining someone who takes their time considering the candidates and their positions on the issues, who generally has faith in the political system, who sometimes votes for Republicans ...

David Campbell and Geoffrey Layman received funding from the National Science Foundation. Geoffrey C. Layman and David E. Campbell received funding from the National Science Foundation. After climbing ...

This essay appears in our current print issue under the headline “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence.” Subscribe to get a copy. Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very ...

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