The conventional wisdom—backed up by polling, news coverage, and rationality—was that Hillary Clinton would beat Donald Trump. At a work happy hour one evening, I remember talking with one of my then ...

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Ben Waldman calls it the “goose chase”: a friendly peer-pressure campaign to coax celebrities, public figures, and cultural ...

Known as Project 2025 and released by the Heritage Foundation, it laid out a blueprint for a maximalist version of executive ...

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Sussex Drive, the official residence of the prime minister, has been gutted to the studs. No government wants to be ...

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T he Conservative Party of Canada recently announced what it called a renewed shadow cabinet shuffle—the “Conservative ...

NDP leaders in Alberta and Saskatchewan have clashed with federal leader Avi Lewis’s anti–fossil fuel stance The feud ...