January 21, 2020 Issue

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Digital Edition

FEATURE

Obama’s Biden betrayal

by Grant Addison

✪ Now you have to listen to Tom Steyer

by Nic Rowan

✪ The French and German threat to NATO

by Benjamin Weinthal

✪ Cory Booker mortgaged his reputation for a failed presidential bid

by Kaylee McGhee White

Your Land

★★★

This town ‘stinks’

by Kaylee McGhee White

★★★

Then and Now: Pest control

by Grant Addison

★★★

Working man blues

by Madeline Fry Schultz

★★★

Make momma get a job?

by Timothy P. Carney

★★★

Word of the Week: ‘Talking point’

by Nicholas Clairmont

Business

Letter From The Editor

Washington Briefing

Despite billions spent on missile shields, US troops were defenseless when Iran attacked

by Jamie McIntyre

When campaigning on healthcare, vagueness is the smart political move

by Kimberly Leonard

China coal additions are key source of emissions, and America is doing almost nothing about it

The Columnists

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Philip Klein

It’s looking more like Trump will be reelected in 2020

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Kristen Soltis Anderson

Nobody knows what will happen in Iowa. Not even the polls

Life & Arts

A good time to be vintage

It’s the institutions, stupid

by Park MacDougald

Michael Lind’s class war

by Timothy Crimmins

Through the eyes of the enemy

The phone drinks first

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Obituary

Sir Roger Scruton, 1944-2020

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