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In September 2023, Joe Biden became the first sitting president to walk a picket line when he joined striking United Auto Workers in Wayne County, Michigan. A decade earlier, under the Obama ...

I am baffled, as I was in 2016, as to why so many liberals are still shocked by Trump’s victory—and why, in their efforts to dissect what happened, they can’t get beyond their incredulity that so many ...

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From 2016 to 2020 Donald J. Trump served as forty-fifth president of the United States; now, he has secured his reelection and will assume office once again as president number forty-seven. It was ...