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Governing through retribution won’t work
Yuval Levin offers the Trump administration a warning about its priorities. Every modern presidency has started out as a reaction against the one that preceded it. A half-century ago, Jimmy…
Grover Cleveland
President of the United States (1885–89; 1893–97)
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No Time for Senate Republicans to Back Biden Judicial Nominees
Mike Davis writes for the Federalist about a current dispute over the outgoing president’s judicial nominees. On Tuesday, President-Elect Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “The Democrats are trying to…
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Considering a ‘Two-Incumbent’ Election
Matthew Continetti writes for the Washington Free Beacon about potential implications of a Biden-Trump rematch. Americans are about to face a choice between two incumbent presidents. The idea sounds oxymoronic:…
Elections & Public Integrity
Trump’s Re-Election Prospects Evaluated
Tevi Troy scours political history books to get a sense of President Trump’s prospects for re-election after his close loss in 2020. Will Donald Trump run for the White House…
Elections & Public Integrity
Impeachment dispute will get worse
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online predicts the future course of the presidential impeachment debate. What happens — or what is likely to happen — is that the Democratic-controlled House…
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Presidents who weren’t previously elected officials
A mathematical error notwithstanding (only 44 men have been president since Grover Cleveland counts twice), Andrew Malcolm‘s column in the Sacramento Bee offers a fascinating look at one of the…
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Forbes holds nothing back in latest critique of Obama
Steve Forbes predicts little good news for President Obama during his final year in office. The Forbes editor-in-chief explains why in the latest issue of his namesake magazine. PRESIDENT OBAMA…
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Our best presidents: Van Buren, Tyler, Cleveland….
On this celebration of Presidents Day, the Foundation for Economic Education includes several essays by historians on our best (or least bad) presidents. What makes for a good presidency? Not…
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National Review’s Williamson takes on the ‘inequality police’
Kevin Williamson‘s latest column at National Review Online tackles the arguments of those who lament growing income inequality in the United States. The inequality police are worried that we are…
Law & Public Safety
P.J. O’Rourke goes to court
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take up the case next month of an Ohio law that makes it illegal to lie about a politician, the Cato Institute and…
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Four’s Company, Too
Not to mention any statistics, such as the one that says, correcting for inflation, housing prices are lower than they were during the Grover Cleveland administration, there is a perception…
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Some presidents who shouldn’t be forgotten
Asked to rattle off a list of the great presidents, and you’re unlikely to mention Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, or Benjamin Harrison. UNC-Chapel Hill constitutional law professor Michael…