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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK A Surcharge on the Charge, Sir If there’s one modern pricing phenomenon The Scrapbook loathes, it’s the add-on surcharge—a deceptive little proviso in the consumer/serviceprovider...
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Murray Kempton at 100
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CASUAL Murray Kempton at 100 The occasion of Murray Kempton’s centenary—he was born December 16, 1917—has attracted little attention. As a columnist for the New York Post and later Newsday he...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS Good News, for Now Despite the best efforts of the president and the Republican National Committee, voters in Alabama didn’t elect a man credibly accused of sexual predation to the U.S....
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Who's to Blame for the Moore Fiasco?
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Mccormack, John
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Who’s to Blame for the Moore Fiasco? Start to finish, there’s enough to go around. by John McCormack For a Republican to lose the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions one year after Donald Trump...
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While Truth Puts On Its Shoes
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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While Truth Puts On Its Shoes The media’s reign of error. by Mark Hemingway Covering the Trump presidency has not always been the media’s finest hour, but even grading on that curve, the month of...
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Exits, Graceful and Otherwise
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WARREN, MICHAEL
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Exits, Graceful and Otherwise Early departures from Team Trump. by Michael Warren Washington was surprised to learn that Dina Powell, the deputy national security adviser for strategy, will be...
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Wisconsin, the Surveillance State
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Schneider, Christian
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Wisconsin, the Surveillance State The ‘John Doe’ scandal widens. by Christian Schneider On May 23, the Wisconsin Department of Justice (Wis-DOJ) received a call from the state’s ethics board. An...
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Is the Electoral College Doomed?
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Guelzo, Allen C.
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Is the Electoral College Doomed? Let’s hope not. by Allen C. Guelzo Every four years we elect a president. And every four years someone emits a squeak of protest that the method we use for...
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Don't Let the Parties Off the Hook
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COST, JAY
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Don’t Let the Parties Off the Hook Along with the voters, they deserve blame for lousy candidates. by Jay Cost In the wake of Democrat Doug Jones’s surprise win over Republican Roy Moore in the...
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A President Has No Friends
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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A President Has No Friends Trump is far from the first to have no close pals. by Philip Terzian Frank Bruni had an interesting column the other day in the New York Times. Naturally, it was about...
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The Man They Love to Hate
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BARNES, FRED
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The Man They Love to Hate EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's recipe for success: fearless defiance of his political and media foes By Fred Barnes Every Sunday evening, the press office at the...
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Deceptive Déjà Vu
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GERECHT, REUEL MARC; Dubowitz, Mark
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Deceptive Déjà Vu Defending the Iran deal by lying about the Iraq war By Reuel Marc Gerecht & Mark Dubowitz In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the...
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Rock-and-Roll Editor
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Rock-and-Roll Editor From counterculture to establishment. by Andrew Ferguson Joe Hagan has written what promises to be the standard biography of Jann Wenner—standard, because it’s hard to imagine...
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Eternal Capital
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COHEN, ERIC
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Eternal Capital Jerusalem, the city of Jewish longing, in intellectual and literary life. by Eric Cohen In a March 2016 speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy...
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Devil's Ball
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YOUNG, CATHY
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Devil’s Ball Fifty years of The Master and Margarita. by Cathy Young Nearly half a century ago, when I was a preschooler in Soviet-era Moscow, two thick magazines appeared in our home. They had...
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Hour of Kneed
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Hour of Kneed The ice maiden of the ’90s skating scandal. by John Podhoretz The propulsively entertaining but problematic new movie I, Tonya reminds us that it’s been nearly a quarter-century...
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Crown of Duty
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Kantor, Elizabeth
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Crown of Duty Netflix’s Queen Elizabeth bioseries stresses the weight of responsibility. BY Elizabeth Kantor The second season of the Netflix show The Crown, released on December 8, is...
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Parody
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“Hot takes aren’t really USA Today’s thing, but the newspaper’s editorial board delivered a pillar of fire to hotel rooms across the country Wednesday. Writing about President Trump’s sexually...
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