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Independent voices and reporting from the center-right.
Washington D.C.
Joined September 2019
Chile Elects Right-Wing President: Rising gang violence and immigration concerns drove Chilean voters to elect the right-wing candidate. | Morning Dispatch https://t.co/VHDpmMKCBv
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Rising gang violence and immigration concerns drove Chilean voters to elect the right-wing candidate.
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What began as sound strategy during the president’s first term, grounded in a framework of great power competition, has given way to transactional balance-of-power politics. My latest in @thedispatch: A Dangerous Détente with China
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In her first piece as a contributor to @thedispatch, a powerful personal essay from @asymmetricinfo - on life and death and everything in between. https://t.co/dXxXq6OL4p
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What a deathbed confession and a long-disappeared sibling taught me about a woman’s right to choose.
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"The simple explanation for yesterday’s result is that it was a product of strong, principled leadership, a species gone almost entirely extinct among Republicans since 2015." | @allahpundit in Boiling Frogs https://t.co/vIoev6VtQQ
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Why Indiana Republicans defied Trump on redistricting.
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"Households that make $140,000 a year are not “poor.” But it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that they feel poor." | @JonahDispatch in G-File https://t.co/ZjfhXUVUXi
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Arguments about the poverty line are really about status.
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The Man-Children of the Revolution: Zohran Mamdani, Luigi Mangione, and the gentle parenting of violence | @tal_fortgang
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Zohran Mamdani, Luigi Mangione, and the gentle parenting of violence.
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"I have a sense, admittedly based on nothing more than subjective evaluation, that the Trump movement already is over, and that what we are seeing today is only its death twitches before rigor mortis starts setting in." | Kevin D. Williamson https://t.co/x9Qxq6ixSc
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The Trump movement in its death throes.
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"If responsible politicians don't deal with immigration, irresponsible politicians will take the issue and win with it." | @JonahDispatch on The Dispatch Podcast
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"The tariffs are increasing uncertainty. It's not just a tax on consumption. It's also a tax on risk taking." | @JonahDispatch explains on @TheArenaCNN
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"The conflict not only set the course for U.S. global dominance; it helped establish the model for how future generations of Americans would envision that leadership role." | @lawsonreports in TheNext250 https://t.co/NpEAAa368B
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It’s hard not to be grateful for the standard set by the fighters of Santiago, particularly when one considers the alternatives.
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"Repealing the military force authorization for the Gulf and Iraq wars is not just symbolic." | @charleshilu73
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Repealing the military force authorization for the Gulf and Iraq wars is not just symbolic.
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Europe’s Free Speech Problem: The U.K. averages 12,000 arrests a year for online speech while the EU and tech giants spar over platform rules | Morning Dispatch https://t.co/CfVDHBbJZ5
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The U.K. averages 12,000 arrests a year for online speech while the EU and tech giants spar over platform rules.
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"Artificial intelligence is growing faster than the electricity system that powers it." | @knowledgeprob in Dispatch Energy, presented by @PacificLegal 🔓 https://t.co/KmDm1hxDK4
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When our power systems struggle to keep pace with the digital economy.
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"They see [Trump] distracted by a whole bunch of things that make it feel like he’s not actually focused on the concerns of those median voters who cared about affordability." | @JonahDispatch explains on @TheArenaCNN
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.@whignewtons discusses on ABC News the Supreme Court’s consideration of whether long-standing legal limits on coordinated campaign spending violate the First Amendment Watch here:
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ABC News contributor Sarah Isgur discusses the Supreme Court’s consideration of whether long-standing legal limits on coordinated campaign spending violate the First Amendment.
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DISPATCH DEBATE - The Flag Deserves Better Than Protection: Outlawing flag burning would undermine the banner’s very meaning | Matthew Cavedon https://t.co/fH9WYHzlsv
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Outlawing flag burning would undermine the banner’s very meaning.
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DISPATCH DEBATE: Flag Burning Is Legal. It Shouldn’t Be: People who desecrate the American flag have no interest in freedom of speech | @CharlesFLehman
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People who desecrate the American flag have no interest in freedom of speech.
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"There is something surreal about the conflict currently playing out in Indiana, where the president of the United States has turned his tweet-borne fury on a group of Republican state senators." | @PhilipWallach
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Indiana legislators face a choice between national party loyalty and local representation.
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