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THE SCRAPBOOK 11, Rounded Up to 240 This spring, not long after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the Department of Education released a report showing that during...

Casual

CASUAL Easily Amused If you’ve been reading the business pages, you probably already know that Disney now owns both Star Wars and Marvel Comics. The predictable response to this as a parent is to...

Editorial

EDITORIALS Activist Senators At a press conference before the Senate confirmation hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne...

Comment

COMMENT FRED BARNES Desperate Democrats One of the most revealing moments in the Senate hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh involved Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). He said Republican...

The Kavanaugh War

Mccormack, John

The Kavanaugh War It’s stupider than you can imagine. by John McCormack Transport yourself back in time to any point in the last 20 years and imagine you were told there would be a Supreme Court...

Innocence Presumed

Johnson, KC; Taylor, Stuart Jr.

center. That wasn’t enough to satisfy many liberal activists. “The Supreme Court is on the line, and you are failing us,” reads a letter to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer from 13 progressive groups....

Russia's Hacks

GERECHT, REUEL MARC

Russia’s Hacks Exaggerating the threat from Moscow. by Reuel Marc Gerecht Given the attention accorded to Vladimir Putin’s efforts to undermine American politics, one might think that Russian...

Blazing an Early Trail to the White House

MECIA, TONY

Blazing an Early Trail to the White House In Iowa, the presidential campaigns never really stop. by Tony Mecia Sioux City, Iowa Rick Mullen recalls the night in 1991 when he and his wife returned...

Republican Is the New Punk

LABASH, MATT

Republican Is the New Punk Street artist Sabo may just be 'some guy who lives in some dump/ but he is taking on and taking down the likes of Jimmy Kimmel and Meryl Streep By Matt Labash Los...

Iran's Long Game

Roggio, Bill

Iran’s Long Game Tehran's growing influence in Iraq is no accident, newly declassified interrogation transcripts show By Bill Roggio Iran has its tentacles all over Iraq, and the United States...

Le Grand Charles

Klepp, Lawrence

Le Grand Charles How de Gaulle turned himself into a symbol. by Lawrence Klepp It’s easy to see why you might get annoyed with Charles de Gaulle. It’s not that he didn’t have impressive qualities....

House Hostility, Senate Smackdowns

BANNER, JAMES M. Jr.

House Hostility, Senate Smackdowns Violence in the antebellum Congress. by James M. Banner Jr. If you’ve ever thought that pretty much everything that could be said about the coming of the Civil...

To Write a Predator

Gulliver, Katrina

To Write a Predator Did a real-life kidnapping case inspire Nabokov’s Lolita? BY Katrina Gulliver In June 1948, 11-year-old Sally Horner was lured from her Camden, New Jersey home by a man named...

Jack Attack

Loya, Nicholas H.

Jack Attack Tom Clancy’s hero returns in a new Amazon series, but with less geeky charm. BY Nicholas H. Loya Tom Clancy, the prolific author of bestsellers about war and espionage, died five years...

Suburban Style

ROSEN, CHRISTINE

Suburban Style High fashion and low blows in a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada. BY Christine Rosen hick lit” is often unfairly maligned as feminine, lowbrow escapism, the literary equivalent of an...

Parody

PARODY “John Dowd was convinced that President Trump would commit perjury if he talked to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. So, on Jan. 27, the president’s then-personal attorney staged a...

Vol. 024 Issue 003 (September 24 2018)

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