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This is the grave of J.B. Jackson. Born in 1909 in Dinard, France, James Brinckerhoff Jackson's parents were rich Americans. He spent his childhood between the U.S. and Europe, including fancy schools in Switzerland. His family had a ranch in New Mexico and he often spent...
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Charles Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a man who thinks ahead: Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley named two conservative senators as preferred replacements for a potential Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Samuel Alito's retirement, as Republicans race to lock in a younger conservative before control of the...
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The political failure of slopulism

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There was a good Times story preceding the election in Hungary about how a former Orban stronghold turned against him because the evidence of his extraordinary corruption had become too tangible to ignore, particularly in the context of a stagnating economy. The danger to competitive authoritarianism...
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