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J.D. Vance
April 22, 2022
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Timothy Noah
Why Donald Trump Might Forgive Kevin McCarthy—and Why He Might Not
Yes, the former president is vain, and the House minority leader crossed him. But the briefly disloyal Republican may yet be spared.
April 18, 2022
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Michael Tomasky
The Not-Too-Early Guide to the Upcoming Senate Primaries
Democrats have a path to keeping control of the Senate, but it’s a treacherous, multistate tightrope walk that they’ll have to execute perfectly.
March 22, 2022
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Alex Shephard
Is This the End of “America First”?
Trump and allies like J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson may have overestimated the appeal of the former president’s isolationism.
February 18, 2022
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Alex Shephard
The Republicans Are Also in Disarray
Democratic squabbling and inertia have garnered most of the headlines. But the GOP is an unholy mess.
February 17, 2022
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Alex Shephard
Peter Thiel Is Funding the Next Wave of Trumpism
The billionaire is backing far-right Republicans who are anti-democracy, anti-China, and pro-crypto.
July 9, 2021
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Alex Shephard
J.D. Vance’s Senate Campaign Is Off to a Humiliating Start
The “Hillbilly Elegy” author spent the first week of his campaign apologizing for his past criticism of Trump. He’s going to have to grovel even more if he hopes to defeat the Forever Trumpers he’s up against.
July 7, 2021
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Alex Shephard
If You Want to Get Ahead in the GOP, You’d Better Support Trump’s Big Lie
Aspiring Republicans once had to sign Grover Norquist’s no-new-taxes pledge. Now they must be devoted to the former president’s perfidies.
May 27, 2021
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Timothy Noah
Who Does J.D. Vance Think He’s Fooling?
I am a fan of “Hillbilly Elegy”—even the movie!—but I can no longer admire the plutocratic fraud that its author has become.
May 5, 2021
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Osita Nwanevu
The Republican Party Will Always Choose Culture Wars Over Working-Class Policy
Josh Hawley and J.D. Vance are pushing a tax credit for parents. They’re being drowned out by the party’s infighting and regressive legislation against protesters and trans people.
December 18, 2020
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Rachel Riederer
Is Dolly Parton the Voice of America?
The curious appeal of the country legend in a divided nation
April 6, 2020
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Kim Kelly
On Being White and Broke in America
With "Rust Belt Femme," Raechel Anne Jolie joins a coterie of writers using memoir to explore whiteness, class, and American hierarchy.
June 27, 2018
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Jedediah Britton-Purdy
The Remaking of Class
Long a silent presence in American life, class is now sharply felt in upheavals and displacement across the country.
October 25, 2017
Sarah Jones
Why Conservatives Blame Poverty on the Poor
A new essay by National Review's Kevin Williamson exposes the ideological blind spots of responsibility politics.
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