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March 11, 2013
Proud Loser

In a December 1964, National Review essay, Ronald Reagan told readers to keep the faith.

March 11, 2013
A Dictionary of New Republican Usage

New terms used by Eric Cantor, Bobby Jindal, and more.

March 11, 2013
Lipstick on an Elephant

Deep behind a tangle of denial and rebranding initiatives, a GOP resuscitation plan emerges.

February 18, 2013
The Speech Obama Put on Repeat

Jon Favreau’s most enduring riffs.

February 11, 2013
“Who Can Imagine Ed Koch Anywhere But in New York?”

Loving a broken city, which mostly loved him back.

February 11, 2013
“Fine Instincts and Terrible Taste”

His triumphs came from his unrealized dreams.

February 11, 2013
“Ed Really Was Not So Much a Politician As an Institution”

Mario Cuomo on an old foe.

February 11, 2013
The Mayor of Crazytown

Ed Koch’s towering self-regard made him the perfect person to lead New York to sanity.

February 11, 2013
Adam Lanza’s Arsenal

The guns he carried embody the nation’s evolving relationship to freedom. And fear.

February 11, 2013
Who Needs to Win to Win?

Can a party rule by capturing most of the country but less than half of the people? We might be about to find out.