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Wednesday, October 20

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Peak Woke? Progressives Provoking a Furious Backlash

Joel Kotkin, Spiked

'Cancel Culture' Isn't the Problem. 'OK Culture' Is.

Lindsay Crouse, NY Times

Left Says: Shut Up & Lower Your Expectations, Karen

Tucker Carlson, FOX News

A Woman Is Raped and Onlookers Record It

Jill Filipovic, CNN

A Report From LA's Hobo No-Go Zone

Peachy Keenan, The American Mind

Sanders Shows Dems How to Deal With Manchin

John Nichols, The Nation

WH to Dems: Pass the Plan, But Zip It on the Cost

Matt Weidinger, RealClearPolitics

Pelosi Has 1 Last Chance To Do Something Really Big

Mark Z. Barabak, LV Sun

Biden & the Dems Screw the Little Guy Again

Hugo Gurdon, Washington Examiner

Trump to Headline 'America First' Policy Summit

Philip Wegmann, RealClearPolitics

China's Bullying a Danger to the World & Itself

Thomas Friedman, NY Times

We're Facing New Cold War With China. Time to Act Like It

Rich Lowry, NY Post

Colin Powell Walked So Barack Obama Could Run

Toure Neblett, The Grio

Powell: the Acceptable Face of Western Interventionism

Tim Black, Spiked

Disgraced Steele Comes Forward With More Deceit

Gregg Jarrett, FOX News

Why Today's Netflix Protest Matters

Maureen Ryan, Vanity Fair

Netflix Caving On Chappelle in 5...4...3...

Rod Dreher, The American Conservative

Biden Job Approval: Selzer 37% | Quinnipiac 40% | Politico 45% | RCP Avg 42%

Editorials

Dear Mr. President, Our City Needs You Now

Baltimore Sun

Disrespect Is All the Democrats Have to Offer

New York Post

Prioritize Mental-Health Care as Jails Are Defunded

Seattle Times

Covid Plummeting in Florida. DeSantis's Critics Hardest Hit

Wash Examiner

More From Real Clear

Policy: 'National Conservatism' Conference to Return - Bill Zeiser, RCPolicy

World: How to Respond to China's Hypersonic Missile - James Holmes, 1945

Energy: The Need for All Hydrogen - Kristine Wiley, RealClearEnergy

Life: How to Join Your Gym's 1,000-Pound Club - Tanner Garrity, IH

Sports: A 247-Pound Man Should Not Be This Fast - Evan Bleier

Videos

Montage: Pfizer Sponsors News On ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN

Terry McAuliffe Quits Interview After Questions On Crime, Education, Vaccine: "Should Have Asked Better Questions"

Buzzfeed

Meghan McCain: People In My Dad's Campaign Set Sarah Palin Up For Failure, Like MSNBC Host Nicolle Wallace

Buzzfeed

Doocy to Psaki: Any Concerns That As Police Forces Shrink, Localities May Not Be Equipped To Respond?

RealClearPolitics Tuesday

The Vicious Mediocrities of Loudoun County, VA

Nate Hochman, The Spectator

Everyone Is Reading Too Much Into VA's Governor Race

Alex Shephard, New Republic

We Got Here Because of Cowardice. Get Out With Courage

Bari Weiss, Commentary

Coming Into Focus: 2 Lawyers Behind Dems' Russia Lie

Aaron Mate, RCInvestigations

I'll Always Be Grateful for This Surprise Call From Colin Powell

David Axelrod, CNN

The Alarming Disappearance of Military Accountability

Keith Kellogg, FOX News

Powell Betrayed His Values. Today's GOP No Longer Has Them

Jackie Calmes, LAT

Covid Lectures From Limousine Liberals

Bridget Phetasy, Tablet Magazine

How Mail-In Voting Became a Dem Electoral Strategy

Mollie Hemingway, Newsweek

How Screwed Are Democrats in the Senate?

Andrew Prokop, Vox

Floundering Biden Admin Doesn't Have Any Answers

Grace Curley, The Spectator

Can Anyone Stop the Uberization of the Economy?

Bryce Covert, New York Magazine

California & the Erasure of Junipero Serra's Legacy

Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics

Huawei's Long Game

Peter Schweizer, Gatestone Institute

America, China and the Echoes of History

Brands & Gaddis, Foreign Affairs

Republicans Are Winning the Debate on Voter ID

Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg

3rd Parties on the Horizon: What Does History Say?

Andrew Busch, RealClearPolitics

PM Update

Virginia's Election Is Breaking the Rules

Gabriel DeBenedetti, New York Magazine

Democrats Fall Silent as Florida's Covid Cases Drop

Sarah Westwood, DC Examiner

Biden's Trap

Elizabeth Drew, Project Syndicate

The Stupid Money on the Right Rides the Grift Train

Ned Ryun, American Greatness

Colin Powell's Fateful Moment

Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker

Soldier, Statesman, Infighter: Remembering Colin Powell

Tevi Troy, City Journal

The End Result of 'Karen' Panic

Helen Andrews, The American Conservative

Biden's Two-Front War for Democracy

Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

Liberal Pieties, Illiberal Consequences

Lee Siegel, City Journal

All Politics Isn't Local Anymore

Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call

My Dad Was a Great Teacher. He Wouldn't Last Now

Jeremy Adams, Quillette

Essential Reading

The Price of Free Elections

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Voter ID Chronology

Today, voter ID remains an active topic in...

In the News

Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg

Republicans Are Winning the Debate on Voter ID
Charles Blow, New York Times

Last Chance to Save American Democracy

Multimedia

How Trustworthy Are American Elections? Elliot Ackerman Joins the Discussion on Restoring Faith in The Electoral Process

Why Election Integrity and Voter Trust Are in the Spotlight in Fulton County, Georgia

Senate Judiciary Committee Discusses Voting Rights

California and the Erasure of Junipero Serra's Legacy

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top California political figures are notably silent on a big cultural issue roiling Hispanics, Native Americans, and the Catholic Church, even last week when it was commanding the media spotlight in the state.Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, President Biden’s stalled choice for ambassador to India, announced the renaming of Father Serra Park, located across t Read More

Biden Administration

Hyde Amendment Is New Obstacle to Biden Spending Plan

The White House is once again at odds with the senior senator from West Virginia.Joe Manchin has made clear for months that the administration’s sprawling $3.5 trillion social spending package is too large, and just as progressives seemed to agree that the top-line number could be whittled down somewhat, the moderate Democrat drew another line in the sand, this one underscoring the Hyde Amendmen Read More

Analysis & Commentary

Cortes: 2022--The Year of the MAGA Outsiders

With Donald Trump out of office, Democrats and their media allies posit that the America First movement is waning. The stellar abundance of proud outsider candidates running for office in 2022 dispels that notion. Like Trump himself, these new outsiders come from beyond the world of politics. They bring the lessons and vigor of careers in the military and business to the world of politics.ArizonaI Read More