Plus: What the debate about trans “censorship” gets wrong, and more…

Monday
November 23, 2020

The Trump Doctrine Is Whatever Mike Pompeo Wants It to Be

The president was always too dense to develop a coherent foreign policy. Now the secretary of state is using these final weeks in power to cement his own legacy.

By Alex Pareene

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	The Dangerous Inversions of the Debate Around Trans “Censorship”The author of a book on the supposed “transgender craze seducing our daughters” claims she is being silenced. It is a very loud silence. By Melissa Gira Grant

	Fox News Prepares to Wage a Culture War on Joe Biden How the network plans to use its Obama playbook against the next Democratic president By Jake Bittle

	Bush Doesn’t Look Better in Hindsight. He Looks Worse.The forty-third president set the stage for a world-historical dimwit to run the nation into the ground. By Bruce Bartlett

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	The Desperate Year of the Digital Media TitansBuzzFeed's acquisition of HuffPost might be good for both companies, but it reflects an industry that's long past its vibrant period of upstart energy. By Alex Shephard

	The Biden Popular Front Is Doomed to UnravelIt may turn out that Donald Trump was the one force keeping the Democratic Party together. By Christopher Caldwell

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