Ramesh Ponnuru
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- Aug 17, 2026
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A Medicare-for-All Gift Is Staring the GOP in the Face (opens the original)
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When Abdul El-Sayed became Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee last week, his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, immediately attacked his “ideological fanaticism” on crime, terrorism and taxes. Unmentioned: El-Sayed’s support for Medicare-for-all, a system in which the federal government would become nearly the only provider of health insurance. Based on the frequency with which El-Sayed brings up health care, he clearly thinks the issue is an asset for him in the race. Perhaps Rogers agrees wit
Killing the Filibuster Won’t Fix a Broken Congress (opens the original)
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) says that while he used to support the filibuster, “at this point in time,” his party should heed President Donald Trump’s call to eliminate it. Sen. Darline Graham (R-South Carolina) has joined the chorus, breaking with her late brother’s commitment to the filibuster. The conservative case against the filibuster, which requires most legislation to get 60 votes in the Senate, comes in two flavors. The low, political one urges Republicans to use this moment of power
PEN America, the Free Speech Group Confused About Free Speech (opens the original)
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PEN America is a venerable organization of writers that, it says on its website, “stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide.” In recent years, though, it has more often stood at the intersection of political infighting and bad publicity. The latest black eye: Dinaw Mengestu, a novelist who became PEN America’s president last December, resigned on July 9 and then, in an essay for Literary Hub, attacked “the organization
The DSA Can’t Hide Its Extremism (opens the original)
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Democratic socialists are enjoying the most political success in urban America in living memory. Candidates who belong to the Democratic Socialists of America have recently won Democratic primaries for the U.S. House of Representatives in Denver, Philadelphia and New York City — in the last case, helped by fellow member Zohran Mamdani, the city’s mayor. Instead of exulting in this opportunity to spread their beliefs, however, these socialists are being coy. Darializa Avila Chevalier, one of the
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