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Jesse Helms
November 19, 2020
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What Now?
How President-elect Joe Biden can start the hard work of rebuilding a fractured country
September 21, 2020
Nick Martin
Conservatives Are Already Whitewashing the Trump Years
Danielle Pletka’s historical revision of Jesse Helms’s career shows how Trumpists will rationalize their role in this disastrous presidency.
July 21, 2020
Nick Martin
John Lewis’s “Good Trouble” Is Happening in the Streets Right Now
There has been a profound disconnect between the hagiography surrounding his death and the response to the radicalism he helped inspire.
February 4, 2015
Joel Gillin
Pope Francis Just Declared This Murdered Archbishop a Martyr. Reaganites Should Be Embarrassed.
December 18, 2012
John B. Judis
Don't Let Chuck Hagel's Hardline Israel Critics Sink His Nomination
August 27, 2012
Timothy Noah
Romney Cribs from the GOP’s Willie Horton Playbook
July 31, 2012
Jose A. DelReal
The Troubling Calm at This Year’s AIDS Conference
September 2, 2011
Simon van Zuylen-Wood
A Radical New Ploy to Destroy Roe v. Wade—Which Just Might Work
December 16, 2010
Nader Mousavizadeh
The Interventionist
August 21, 2010
Seyward Darby
Burr Is Cold
May 12, 2010
Jonathan Chait
Is Toomey Too Looney?
November 19, 2008
Alan Wolfe
Dixie Shtick
July 7, 2008
Jonathan Chait
Jesse Helms, Civil Rights Visionary
July 7, 2008
The New Republic Staff
Comment Of The Day: White-washing Helms
July 4, 2008
Isaac Chotiner
Jesse Helms
March 22, 2004
Janine Zacharia
Oppo Research
September 9, 2002
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Personality Test
July 5, 1999
Ryan Lizza
Demolition Man
November 27, 1997
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Ambassador Feelgood
September 29, 1997
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