Politics

Team Trump Is Buying Into RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Nonsense

Donald Trump has been fairly explicit regarding his plans to reward his most ardent sycophants with high-level administration positions should he win another term in office. Independent presidential candidate and vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for instance, is expected to take over a major national health role. His …

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Trump's Plot Against America

Early in the 2016 campaign, months before Donald Trump won his first presidential nomination, I wrote my friend Philip Roth an email about his novel, The Plot Against America, which had appeared twelve years earlier. The book was Roth’s fanciful but chilling fiction about a fascist takeover of the presidency …

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Democrats Are, in Fact, Cracking Down at the Border

EL PASO, Texas — In a campaign visit to the Arizona–Mexico border in September, Vice President Kamala Harris promised to institute “more severe criminal charges” for people who attempt to cross the border without adequate paperwork, touting her record as a prosecutor. Five years ago, while campaigning for president, Harris …

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