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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK The Worst Government Agency? For generations, the IRS has held the distinction of being America’s most hated government agency. Its title is now in jeopardy. Last week the...
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No Need to Read All About It
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Epstein, Joseph
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CASUAL No Need to Read All About It I first acquired a connoisseur’s interest in dull headlines in 1963, when I read, in a note in the air edition of the Eng-lish New Statesman, that the London...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS theweekly Standard No Whining If you’re a conservative, you admire Edmund Burke—and you may recall this passage—a bit hyperbolic perhaps, but stirring and powerful: But the age of...
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The School Lunch Debacle
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Schachter, Abby W.
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The School Lunch Debacle Kids just won’t swallow it. BY ÄBBY W. SCHÄCHTER Pittsburgh £ ¥ IT ~r e don’t need directives,” \ \ I says Tony Aquilio. He’s W principal at Penn-Traf-ford High School,...
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Will the Wheels of Justice Grind Hillary?
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HALPER, DANIEL
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Will the Wheels of Justice Grind Hillary? Put not your trust in email scandals. by Daniel Halper Where you come down on the Hillary Clinton email scandal is likely a matter of political—or at...
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The Ultimate Test for a Dealmaker
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BARNES, FRED
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The Ultimate Test for a Dealmaker Getting to 1,237 delegates. by Fred Barnes Is Donald Trump as good at making deals as he says? He’d better be or his chances of winning the Republican...
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Conventional Wisdom
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COST, JAY
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Conventional Wisdom Is Cruz stealing delegates from Trump? BY JAY COST After Ted Cruz won every del-egate up for grabs at the Colorado Republican convention, Donald Trump began complaining that...
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China's Caesar
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CHANG, GORDON G.
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China’s Caesar Xi Jinping and the Cultural Revolution. by Gordon G. Chang Chinese leader Xi Jinping vis-ited major state and Commu-nist party media outlets in February, where he demanded “absolute...
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The Future of the Past
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Green, Dominic
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The Future of the Past Protecting endangered antiquities. by Dominic Green New Haven, Conn. Ziad al-Saad is an archaeolo-gist at Yarmouk University in Irbid. The Jordanian city is near the site...
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The Green Energy Bust
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MOORE, STEPHEN
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The Green Energy Bust It’s the 1970s all over again. by Stephen Moore Almost 40 years ago, the last “green” president, Jimmy Carter, went on national TV and glumly told the nation from the Oval...
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A Dangerous Man
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NORMAN, GEOFFREY
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A Dangerous Man Andrew Jackson was a killer President By Geoffrey Norman When he was 13, but more man than boy, Andrew Jackson got his first taste of war, helping his mother tend to the...
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Banana Republicans
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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Banana Republicans The battle for the U.S. Virgin Islands By Mark Hemingway Making sense of the 2016 Republican primary is a task best left to future historians, but here’s one rough measure of...
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A Not-So-Great Society
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PIERESON, JAMES
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A Not-So-Great Society The failure, and success, of Lyndon B.Johnson. by James piereson The rise and fall of Lyndon B. Johnson from 1963 to 1968 is now recalled as a cautionary tale in the...
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Flowers of Evil
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Mattix, Micah
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Flowers of Evil Exercising judgment in a nonjudgmental world. by Micah Mattix Taste—to paraphrase a good line from a bad writer— is the hobgoblin of little minds. At least, that’s the general view...
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Rockets' Red Glare
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Leach, Sydney
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Rockets’ Red Glare A visit to Edith Wharton’s metaphorical battlefield. by Sydney Leach On July 30, 1914, as war was beginning to be declared throughout Europe, Edith Wharton stood in the glow of...
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The Beauty Part
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GARDNER, JAMES
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The Beauty Part Anthony van Dyck and his rarefied world. by James Gardner New York Imagine if we chose our favorite painters the way some people vote for president, by posing that famous...
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One Day's Lesson
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Cleveland, John Connor
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One Day’s Lesson A grateful memory of Pat Conroy, 1945-2016. By John Connor Cleveland Three-quarters of the way through Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides, the narrator Tom Wingo describes the death...
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Snap Judgment
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Snap Judgment The moral implications of the war on terror. by John Podhoretz How often can you say you’ve seen a movie that takes on a key moral and philosophical issue raised by the war on terror...
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Parody
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“Rigged race means Hillary takes more delegates PARODY in Bernie’s Wyoming win” —New York Post headline, April 9,...
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