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Saturday, January 28

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Can the GOP Become a Real Working-Class Party?

Gerald Seib, Wall St. Journal

A Tea Party Takeover: GOP Goes Full MAGA

Heather Digby Parton, Salon

McDaniel To Navigate GOP Through Deep Divisions

Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics

Nichols' Killing Shows Again Black Lives Don't Matter

Mike Freeman, USA Today

Bad Policing, Not Race, Led to Death of Tyre Nichols

Jonathan Turley, NY Post

GOP Has Deep Bench for 2024 Presidential Race

Scott Walker, Washington Times

Fear of Trump Paralyzes GOP’s Potential Candidates

Bill Scher, RealClearPolitics

How Trump’s 2024 Campaign Bounced Back

Matthew Continetti, Free Beacon

DeSantis: A Conservative Living in the Real World

Rod Dreher, American Conservative

America Needs Both Parties to Be Inclusive

Wayne Valis, RealClearPolitics

The Biden Autocracy

Kenin Spivak, American Mind

Yellen Holds the Line on Russia Sanctions

Hans Nichols, Axios

U.S. General Warns War With China Possible in 2 Years

Dan Lamothe, Wash Post

Facebook Hasn't Learned Its Lesson

Jan-Werner Müller, The Guardian

Dave Rubin's Jaw-Dropping Walk Through Twitter HQ

Nick Arama, RedState

The NHL Is Gutless

Jemele Hill, The Atlantic

The Left Only Pretends To Be Against Discrimination

Timothy Carney, DC Examiner

Editorials

McCarthy Plays Schoolyard Politics

Fresno Bee

Good Riddance to Ron Klain and His Ridiculous Spin Obsession

New York Post

Netanyahu More Worried About Israel’s Protests Than Palestinians

Al-Monitor

The Economy Slows Down

Wall Street Journal

More From Real Clear

Markets: Biden Takes On the Berenstain Bears...And Loses - John Tamny, RCM

Science: The Rise and Fall of String Theory - Paul Sutter, Ars Technica

Defense: An Expiration Date for the All-Volunteer Force? - Conrad Crane, RCDef

Life: You Should Try Lo-Fi, High-Value Wines - Kirk Miller, IH

Sports: Expert NFL Picks for Conference Championships - Evan Bleier

Videos

Chief Of Staff Ron Klain Departs Biden WH: We Delivered A "Record For The Ages"

Tucker Carlson: Pfizer Exec Confirmed Things You Expected And Told You Things You Had No Idea Were Going On

Buzzfeed

Manchin: Biden "Should Have Regrets" Over Classified Docs, "It Seems That Basically We Have No Checks And Balances"

Buzzfeed

NSC Spokesman John Kirby: Idea That Ukraine War Is About NATO Is A "Russian Narrative"

RealClearPolitics Friday

Actions of FBI, CIA Leave Us in Our Own Truman Show

Roger Kimball, Spectator

McCarthy Is Trying To Silence Us. He'll Lose

Reps. Schiff, Swalwell & Omar, MSNBC

Democrats Hate Being Held to Their Own Standards

Guy Benson, Townhall

US Steps Up Support for Ukraine

Bevan, Cannon, Stoddard & Walworth, RCP Takeaway

Why Tanks Will Be Decisive in Next Battle for Ukraine

David Andelman, CNN

GOP Vows Strict Oversight of Ukraine Aid

Philip Wegmann, RealClearPolitics

The Flu-ification of COVID Policy Is Almost Complete

Katherine Wu, The Atlantic

Media Ignoring Pfizer's Alleged Manipulation of Covid

Tucker Carlson, FOX News

Trump and Facebook's Mutual Decay

Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic

The Caesars of the Information Age

Brendan O'Neill, Spiked

DeSantis Blocks AP Course, Reveals His True Colors

David Wilkins, USA Today

DeSantis Should Be Skeptical of College Board's Turn

Joy Pullmann, Federalist

Why Are M&M's Caving to Rightwing Anti-Woke Pressure?

Tayo Bero, Guardian

When the New Right Meets the Old Left on ESG

Rupert Darwall, RealClearEnergy

Can Anything Be Done To Assuage Rural Rage?

Paul Krugman, New York Times

Headwinds in the Windy City

John McGinnis, City Journal

How Henry Kissinger Abandoned South Vietnam

Stephen Young, Washington Examiner

N.H. GOP '24 (UNH): DeSantis 42, Trump 30, Haley 8, Sununu/Hogan/Cheney 4

PM Update

The Incoherence of Facebook's Trump Decision

David Graham, The Atlantic

Twitter Files Exposes the Next Great Media Fraud

Matt Taibbi, Twitter

Ron Klain and the Demise of Moderate Dems

Jonathan Tobin, Washington Examiner

The DOJ's Response to Tyre Nichols' Brutal Killing Matters

Joy Vance, MSNBC

4 Outrages the Left Won't Allow Us To Talk About

Douglas MacKinnon, FOX News

Mayors Aren't Afraid To Take On Gun Industry

Mayor Quinton Lucas, Newsweek

Get Ready for Dems' Useless Gun-Control Push

David Harsanyi, The Federalist

House GOP Creates New Ways To Waste Everyone's Time

Hayes Brown, MSNBC

Left's Campaign To Ban Gas Stoves Is Real

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

China Is Trying to Play Nice. It's a Problem for the U.S.

Hal Brands, Bloomberg

The Pompeo Speech on China's Influence That MIT Killed

Douglas Murray, NYP

Essential Reading

Total Vote Runoff: A Majority-Maximizing Form of Ranked Choice Voting

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How Ranked-Choice Voting Can Improve Presidential Primaries

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In the News

Alex Ford, NBC News

Billions of Political Text Messages Were Sent Last Year — and There’s Little to Stop More From Coming
Jessica Huseman, Votebeat

We’ve Despaired Over Democracy Before, and It’s Always Come Through

Multimedia

How Much Money Should Americans Spend on Their Elections?

Will SLC and Other Cities Try Ranked Choice Voting Again?

Tarren Bragdon Blasts Biden for 'Eroding Election Integrity'

The Indictment of Charles McGonigal

One evening in May 2017, Charles “Charlie” McGonigal was about to take the stage to give a talk to the Foreign Policy Association when he learned that less than four months into his presidency, Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey.At the time, McGonigal was one of the most senior officials in the FBI – special agent in charge [SAC] of the bureau’s prestigious counterintelligence Read More

Biden Administration

Biden Wants To Stay in the Dark About Mishandled Docs

In the White House telling, President Biden knows little, which is exactly what his lawyers want.In Mexico City last week, when he first addressed the classified material that turned up in a personal office, Biden said he was “surprised” by the discovery, that he was “cooperating fully” with pertinent legal authorities, and that he doesn’t “know what’s in the documents.” His lawyer Read More

Analysis & Commentary

Zane: A Tale of Two Princes

“Revenge of the Princes” is the hot new show drawing wide audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.Combining the classic Shakespearean themes of regicide and patricide with our contemporary idolatry of narcissism and victimhood, “Revenge” is not unfolding on Broadway or the West End; a real-life adaptation is being livestreamed into our homes as two separate but entwined psychodramas. While Read More