
Sean Illing
Host of The Gray Area
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“In a direct election system, the South would have lost every time.”


Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels on the GOP’s future after Trump.


A historian on Trump’s primal appeal


A media scholar on Donald Trump and perils of a Balkanized media.

Trump put fascism on the ballot this year, and millions of people said “yes.”


“Trump is a reminder of what masculinity can be like outside of conventions.”


“I think it’s important to say it’s a social crisis.” — J.D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy.”


“What are voters supposed to do with this?” — Justin Shur, former Department of Justice prosecutor.

The author of Tribe explains how the American military’s PTSD problem illustrates our broken society.


David French talks about the price his family paid for opposing Donald Trump.