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The one word that best describes JD Vance is not “weird,” it is “changeable.” Nothing about him remains the same — not his occupation, not his political heroes, not his religion, not even his name. He sometimes seems like a dandelion swaying in the wind, or, to be less kind as
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Ask the people who know Donald J. Trump best — the once-loyal partisans he appointed to high offices — who now line up against him. From vice president to former press secretary to former lawyer, an unprecedented number of his appointees now repudiate him, some in the harshest of terms, as reported
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The introduction Direct from the somnolent center of the Midwest, the city that gave America the Fonz, Laverne, and Shirley, Milwaukee hosted eight Republican dwarfs gathered Wednesday night to derail the 800-page gorilla who was not in the room. Candidate and former President Donald J. Trump, who is carrying more
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Thursday was the day for Mike Pence’s turn in the spotlight, but the former vice president did not appear before the House Jan. 6 committee. Was he in the undisclosed location he was ushered to on Jan. 6? I don’t know whether his absence is a reflection of
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Once, this would be of interest only to citizens of the 182nd Pennsylvania house district, which contains Center City’s Gayborhood, and who were represented by Brian Sims, whom I had supported. I didn’t know a lot about him in 2012, but I knew he wasn’t goniff Babette
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What happened Wednesday, Jan. 6, in the nation’s capital was ugly, a stain on democracy, treasonous on the part of some of those who breached the Capitol and invaded the Rotunda. But it was no more a “coup” than the James Throckmorton Middle School production of “1776.” Here is
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I’ve got to confess: For safety’s sake I set up a plexiglass shield between me and the TV. OK — that’s a joke, but so were the oval barriers between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris. Although the set was the same as for the last