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Get Smart: Our Summer Reading Roundup
Here are some of our editors’ and reviewers’ top picks so far this year for policy and political nonfiction.
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Fauci Agonistes: It’s Time to End the Republican Witch Hunt
The right danced a jig of joy over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s invoking the Fifth Amendment before Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security Committee. The Kentucky Republican knew in advance that Fauci would give no substantive testimony. Yet he paraded the 85-year-old doctor before the cameras to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights over a hundred times, then warned him of “repercussions” for refusing to answer. Judges often instruct juries that they may draw no adverse inference from a witness’s invocation of his constitutional rights, but Paul seemed to forget this in his admonition. Fauci’s great crime: He served his country during the…
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The Case for the DNC’s Ken Martin. Really
The party chair is being excoriated, but the truth is that he’s taking on the D.C. consultant class, building a strong grassroots operation, and raising tons of money while disposing of the Harris campaign’s 2024-incurred debts.
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How Left Will Democrats Go In 2028? That Depends on 2026
Democratic voters, long partial to candidates who show a capacity for bipartisan compromise over ideological purity, may be changing.
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The Doctor Shortage Is Here—and Getting Worse
Ways to address the demographic, immigration, and policy mess before it’s too late.
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Businesses Should Step Up to Defend Democracy
The business community’s silence could accelerate America’s slide into autocracy, warns the founder of the pro-democracy business coalition Leadership Now.
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A Better Celebration of America at 250
The new Lincoln Memorial Undercroft museum enshrines America’s highest ideals, however unrealized.
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