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George Conway, a conservative lawyer and vocal critic of President Donald Trump, filed paperwork on Monday to run as a Democrat for the seat Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) is vacating. News of Conway entering the race began surfacing last month, especially after Conway confirmed he had hired a Democratic pollster to weigh his chances. Conway…

CBS News abruptly pulled a “60 Minutes” investigation featuring Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison on Sunday, sparking swift backlash within the newsroom, including from the story’s veteran correspondent. The canceled segment, yanked at the behest of newly appointed editor in chief Bari Weiss, focused on the notorious El Salvador prison that President…

Progressives are pushing Medicare for All in some of the Democratic Party’s most competitive Senate primaries next year, threatening the unity the party has found on attacking Republicans over expiring Obamacare subsidies. In Maine, Graham Platner said he’s making Medicare for All a “core part” of his platform in his race against Gov. Janet Mills,…

PHOENIX — After three straight days of MAGA infighting here at Turning Point’s AmericaFest, top Republicans — including Vice President JD Vance — tried to find agreement on Sunday afternoon, shifting their focus to countering the opposition. “President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless, self-defeating purity…

President Donald Trump endorsed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman in the New York gubernatorial race, a day after Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) ended her bid. “Bruce is MAGA all the way, and has been with me from the very beginning,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Saturday. “Bruce Blakeman is a FANTASTIC guy,…

Politics Trump’s Free-Speech Warrior? Behind the curtain with Darren Beattie, one of the new president’s most provocative personnel picks. (U.S. Department of State) “Everything is possible with Donald Trump,” one State Department source familiar with the hiring told The American Conservative.  This person was speaking of the shock retention of Darren Beattie as the acting…

Politics Will Trade Policy Be America First’s Iraq War? There are better and worse ways to do things, and there is no reason to dig in on the worse ways. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) There’s a fine line between conviction and partisanship. A helpful rubric is whether you have stopped asking the question, What if we’re…

Foreign Affairs On Iran, Trump Should Ignore Netanyahu A nuclear deal with Tehran would serve U.S. interests. Credit: KPG-Ivary President Trump has made a habit of dropping major news when Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House. In early February, during a joint news conference with the Israeli leader, Trump debuted his plan…

Economics Cold Breakfast in America From corn flakes to Legos, the consumer is on the business end of “economics.” ((Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images) Not long ago I found myself flipping through a biography of John Harvey Kellogg, the impresario of dry breakfast cereal. It was a very dull book. But it…

Foreign Affairs Erdoğan’s New Turkey—and Old? The “neo-Ottoman” dreams of American Turkey-watchers exceed reality. For Americans steeped in a post-Cold War “unipolar” understanding of world affairs, the foreign policy of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can be hard to fathom. Whether in buying Russian-produced S-400 air defense systems over Washington’s loud objections in 2020, triangulating between Ukraine…