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What Trump and Haley’s Civil War Gaffes Reveal

The two candidates are effectively running in different elections.
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When the Civil War is in the news, it’s almost never a good sign about the health of the republic.

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An Entirely Different Election

As the Supreme Court prepares to take up questions of Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for president, reporters are poring over transcripts of congressional debate about the post–Civil War Fourteenth Amendment, which bars insurrectionists,

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