We’re in an acrimonious period of partisan tribalism and have been for some time.
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It’s time to tally my right and wrong predictions for 2021 and offer fresh prognostications for the New Year. The split was 17½ right to 7½ wrong.
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President Trump has formally endorsed 85 Republican candidates so far this year, probably far more than any other president so soon after leaving office.
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Desperate to pass yet another gargantuan spending bill, President Biden has declared war on a federal agency Vice President Biden regularly praised—the Congressional Budget Office.
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My semester teaching at the University of Texas ended as it began, with two fascinating figures, one a Republican and the other a Democrat, talking about politics at its highest level.
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Politicians need ambition, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer may be taking it too far in demanding that his chamber pass the National Defense Authorization Act, federal budget, debt-ceiling increase and Build Back Better Act before Christmas.
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The Democrats’ problem isn’t bad salesmanship. It’s what they’re selling.
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Democratic politicos and their media allies have offered illuminating and sometimes entertaining explanations for last week’s Republican sweep in Virginia and Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s political near-death experience in New Jersey.
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