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Ben Sasse
July 6, 2023
Sean T. Byrnes
The Myth of Reagan’s Cold War Toughness Haunts American Foreign Policy
Hawks may claim that uncompromising defense policies won the Cold War. But his pursuit of peace was more important.
January 10, 2023
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Nina Burleigh
Is Campus Free Speech Really Dead?
Media coverage of campus speech controversies focuses almost solely on elite, coastal schools. But what about the rest of the country? A report from an array of higher education institutions nationwide
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December 30, 2022
Jack McCordick
Quitter of the Year: Ben Sasse
The Nebraska senator is finally getting out of politics after years of never really getting into it.
April 12, 2022
Maya Wiley
We Know Who the Real Judicial Extremist Is, and It Isn’t Ketanji Brown Jackson
Justice Jackson is well within the judicial and political mainstream. It’s Mitch McConnell, with his ruthless tactics, who is the extremist.
December 31, 2020
Matt Ford
The Future of Trumpism Is Not Josh Hawley. It’s Trump.
Why are Republicans so sure the outgoing president won’t run again in 2024?
December 28, 2020
Walter Shapiro
The Case for Biden to Muddle Through America’s Political Crisis
How the president-elect should deal with Trump’s Republican enablers
November 7, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Donald Trump Lost the Election. He’s Losing His Party, Too.
The Republicans’ retreat from the president isn’t happening for the right reasons. But it is happening.
October 20, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Media Is Falling for Republicans’ New Anti-Trump Narrative
Senators John Cornyn and Ben Sasse are trying to con the public into believing they didn’t lick Trump’s boots for four years. Will they get away with it?
October 16, 2020
Libby Watson
Ben Sasse Is a Fraud
The hard-line Republican senator wants us to believe he’s a Never Trumper again, after making peace with the president last year.
September 10, 2020
Matt Ford
Ben Sasse’s Plan to Save the Senate Will Bury It Instead
The world’s greatest deliberative body has seen better days, but the Nebraska senator’s solutions will only continue its downward spiral.
May 28, 2019
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Ted Genoways
River of No Return
How austerity and climate change put northeastern Nebraska underwater
January 2, 2019
Matt Ford
Who Is Mitt Romney Kidding?
The new senator from Utah has too much in common with Trump to become part of the #Resistance.
October 23, 2018
Alex Shephard
Don’t Count on Republicans to Punish Saudi Arabia
They've been capitulating to Trump for two years now. The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi isn't likely to change that.
June 18, 2018
Jeet Heer
The GOP is the party of Trump on separating families.
January 30, 2018
Jeet Heer
Anti-Trump Republicans Refuse to Wake From Their Dream of a Third Party
August 9, 2017
Jeet Heer
The Malicious Politics of Millennial-Bashing
The latest attacks on young people's lifestyle choices are being fueled by generational polarization—and signal an emerging conservative strategy.
July 6, 2017
Alex Shephard
The GOP Needs Trump’s Tweets
Republicans say the president should step away from the smartphone. But his Twitter habit is a useful foil for a discredited party.
June 17, 2016
Brian Beutler
Republicans want to get back to simpler times when they could just blame the media for all their problems.
June 1, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Why doesn’t Bill Kristol run for president himself?
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