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Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity—the Video

Here’s the press conference at which Daniel McAdams introduced Ron Paul’s new …

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Race or War—Which Caused the ’60s Realignment?

Segregation wasn’t the only thing that made the South go Republican.

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The Mark Sanford Saga Gets Weirder

If you’ve read Michael Brendan Dougherty’s profile of Mark Sanford—or, for that …

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Punks for Thatcher

“Saturday Night Live” takes the mickey (below), but there were a few …

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Long-Term Unemployment Is a Long-Term National Problem

Matthew Yglesias points to Rand Ghayad’s research showing—unsurprisingly—that employers are reluctant to …

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Why Republicans Should Embrace Change

Nate Cohn lays out the dismal future for the Republican Party if …

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Ron Paul Launches a Foreign-Policy Institute

The former Texas congressman gave voice to a noninterventionist foreign policy when …

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