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At one point, Trump sort of smirked. I was standing about four feet away from the odd assemblage. And it wasn’t even the ...

Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.

Yet the Government Accountability Office estimates that the government loses roughly $50 billion to $100 billion a year to ...

Don’t expect Leo XIV to be merely progressive or conservative.

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