No matter the direction of the tragedy, the end result is the same — the right grows angrier at the left, and the left grows angrier at the right.

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No matter the direction of the tragedy, the end result is the same — the right grows angrier at the left, and the left grows angrier at the right.

The round table convenes to make sense of Kirk’s legacy and the future of discourse.

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The round table convenes to make sense of Kirk’s legacy and the future of discourse.

An assassin took aim at the American experiment itself.

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An assassin took aim at the American experiment itself.

We do not kill those merely suspected of being criminals from the air.

On this week’s round table, the G.O.P’s shutdown spiral.

There is a Goldilocks solution here.

How to bend political reality in two easy steps.

The president has raised the stakes.