Commentary By Daniel McCarthy

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                            August 6, 2024Is Trump Running Against Harris -- or Donald Trump? By Daniel McCarthy
   Donald Trump and Kamala Harris may be rivals for the White House, but they're not exactly competing in the same race.

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                            July 30, 2024Kamala Harris' 'Mean Girls' Election By Daniel McCarthy
Is Kamala Harris running for president or prom queen?

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                            July 16, 2024Are Republicans Ready for Biden's Counterattack? By Daniel McCarthy
Donald Trump has a lot of things to celebrate this week, but a foregone conclusion in November isn't one of them.
Joe Biden is down in the polls and losing the unwinnable war against time's toll.
But he's nothing if not tenacious, and the president has a trick ready to turn Trump's latest triumph -- over an assassin's bullet -- into a political defeat.

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                            July 9, 2024Joe Biden Faces Richard Nixon's Choice By Daniel McCarthy
   Joe Biden has come to the same dead end Richard Nixon arrived at half a century ago.

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                            July 2, 2024Should President Biden Drop Out -- or Resign? By Daniel McCarthy
   If Joe Biden is unfit to run for president, how can he be fit to continue serving as president?

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                            June 25, 2024Separate Sexual Identity and State By Daniel McCarthy
A new crime wave has gripped the country, and this time progressives are calling for harsh penalties, even charging teenagers with felonies.

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                            June 18, 2024Nigel Farage Makes the Trump Moment Permanent By Daniel McCarthy
   First came Brexit, then came Trump -- and now it's happening again.

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                            June 11, 20241984 in 2024: Orwell Was Right By Daniel McCarthy
Americans still read George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949.

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                            June 4, 2024Virginia Turns Toward Trump By Daniel McCarthy
Donald Trump became president by flipping states no Republican nominee had won in nearly 20 years.

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                            May 28, 2024The Free-Market Populism of Javier Milei By Daniel McCarthy
   Javier Milei is a rock star.
   The president of Argentina was, in fact, in a Rolling Stones cover band as a teen.
   But now he plays stadiums -- like Buenos Aires' 8,400-capacity Luna Park -- as a political phenomenon, a charismatic cross between Donald Trump and Milton Friedman.

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                            May 21, 2024Trump's Sun Belt Hopes and Rust Belt Needs By Daniel McCarthy
Donald Trump's first election redrew the map of American politics; suddenly Pennsylvania and Michigan were in the Republican column for the first time since the 1980s.
But they didn't stay there: The Rust Belt states that made Trump president in 2016 sent Joe Biden to the White House in 2020.

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                            May 14, 2024What Trump Sees in Doug Burgum By Daniel McCarthy
   Donald Trump knows how to run a talent show.

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                            May 7, 2024The Vietnam Era Never Ended for Biden's Party By Daniel McCarthy
   "This may be Biden's Vietnam."

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                            April 30, 2024Nationalists of the World, Unite? By Daniel McCarthy
        The historian John Lukacs used to say all the old "isms" of politics were defunct.

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                            April 23, 2024Foreign Policy Splits the Parties By Daniel McCarthy
   In 2024, foreign policy doesn't pit Republicans against Democrats so much as it pits Republicans against Republicans and Democrats against Democrats.

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                            April 16, 2024Trump and the Pro-Life Dilemma By Daniel McCarthy
   Donald Trump is the furthest thing from a threat to democracy where abortion is concerned -- and for activists on both sides, that's alarming.

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                            April 9, 2024PBS Misremembers William F. Buckley Jr. By Daniel McCarthy
   Imagine making a documentary about one of the 20th century's leading opponents of the Ku Klux Klan -- without ever talking about the evil of the KKK itself.

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                            April 2, 2024Who Wants to Be House Speaker? By Daniel McCarthy
Mel Brooks said it's good to be the king -- but is it good to be speaker of the House of Representatives?

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                            March 26, 2024Trump Hunts for a VP Close to Home By Daniel McCarthy
   It's the new season of "The Apprentice," only this time Donald Trump isn't looking for the next business whiz, he's in the market for a running mate.

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                            March 19, 2024Princess Kate and Democracy's Discontents By Daniel McCarthy
   Unelected pundits unceasingly tell us democracy is in danger.