History

The Exceptional Catalog of American Polling Failures 0
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- October 15, 2020
The question looms in nearly every U.S. presidential election, even in this year’s race: Could the polls be wrong? If they are, they likely will err in unique fashion. The history of election polling says as much. That history tells of no greater polling surprise than what happened in 1948, when President Harry Truman defied
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Why Biden and Boris Are Both Using ‘Build Back Better’0
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- October 12, 2020
The Trump campaign shared a video on social media this week, claiming Joe Biden had ripped off a slogan from British prime minister Boris Johnson. “We have a great opportunity to build back and to build back better” (emphasis added), Biden said in the video, dated July 9, 2020. Then rolled a video of the
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The Media Is Openly Pushing Secession as the Election Nears 0
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- October 8, 2020
It’s becoming increasingly clear to even mainstream media outlets that things are unlikely to return to “normal” after the 2020 election. No matter who wins, it is likely the losing side will regard the winning side as having obtained its win using dirty tricks, foreign meddling, or through relentless propaganda offered up by a heavily
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Clarence Thomas Signals Willingness to Overturn Obergefell v. Hodges 0
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- October 7, 2020
Much attention has been devoted to the potential role a Justice Amy Coney Barrett might play in overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the nationwide legalization of abortion. Now current Justice Clarence Thomas is also raising the possibility of overturning Obergefell v. Hodges and returning the legalization of gay marriage to the states. The Supreme Court was unanimous in its decision not to
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The Specter Haunting Marxism 0
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- October 5, 2020
Marx and Engels are still revered in certain circles, as is the system of thought they invented in the 19th century. Indeed, on the Left, they are treated with the reverence that used to be reserved in the U.S. for the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt. But there is a specter
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Climbing Mount Durant: A Foray Into Fair-Minded History 0
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- October 5, 2020
Shortly before New Year’s Day, 2018, I resolved to read Will and Ariel Durant’s The Story of Civilization, that eleven-volume literary Mount Everest that weighs more than 30 pounds and runs to nearly 10,000 pages. Sticking to a New Year’s resolution or a Lenten vow is not my strong suit. Ten years ago, one of my
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