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Commentary: Nominate the ‘most qualified’ woman? Reagan certainly didn’t

During his 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan promised that “one of the first Supreme Court vacancies in my administration will be filled by the most qualified woman I can possibly find.” In 1981, after he entered the White House, he said he “identified such a person” in Sandra Day O’Connor.

Los Angeles Times

Russia was once enemy number one in the US. So how did Vladimir Putin infiltrate the Republican Party?

Just 40 years ago, US President Ronald Reagan branded the Soviet Union an "evil empire". But Russia's invasion of Ukraine has exposed deep divisions in America's conservative movement when it comes to Vladimir Putin.

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Commentary: Putin’s dangerous nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine

Most Americans view nuclear weapons as a relic of the Cold War. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed in 1985 “that a nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought.” That thinking has remained a “given” for the last 37 years. Unfortunately, Russian President…

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In war, there are no "worthy" victims

Russia's war crimes should not be used to whitewash America's record — that only worsens the cycle of atrocity

Salon

Zelensky to receive ‘Ronald Reagan Freedom Award’ also presented to Gorbachev, Thatcher

Other world leaders who’ve been so honoured include former president George HW Bush, Polish president Lech Walesa, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Soviet dissident turned Israeli politician Natan Sharansky

The Independent UK

Tom Cotton will compare Reagan to Trump in speech seen as 2024 launchpad

The Arkansas senator is considered a contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination

The Independent UK

Lynn Schmidt: The Republican Party of Reagan is dead

On Jan. 11, 1989, President Ronald Reagan delivered his farewell address from the Oval Office. It was the close of his second term, and Reagan was reflecting on his two terms. He asserted that his presidency was about restoring America in its role as a “shining city on a hill.”

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Tyler Cowen: How Reagan would have handled Putin

The Ukraine crisis makes me miss Ronald Reagan. More to the point, it makes me better appreciate his combination of moral clarity and realism: He understood that some governments are simply evil. Their leaders lust after power and seek to limit the freedom of their citizens. These governments are a…

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35 years later, Konami's greatest arcade game still holds up on Switch

This arcade classic from Konami just turned an astonishing 35 years old. Its '80s action movie aesthetics and grueling difficulty still hold up on Switch.

Inverse

It's the End of the Neoliberal Era, and We Still Don't Know What Neoliberalism Is

Politics is filled with words that mean different things in different mouths, but "neoliberalism" is an especially tangled case.

Reason

Racism and the roots of conservative philanthropy in the US

How a backlash against racial liberalism led to the rise of a philanthropy that discourages discussions on race.

Al Jazeera

Before Trump and QAnon came Robert Welch

Robert Welch and the John Birch Society were dismissed for years as wackos and losers. But they won the long game

Salon

Kevin McDermott: GOP doesn't truly mind 'identity politics.' As long as it's the right identity

During the 1980 presidential campaign, when candidate Ronald Reagan vowed to put a woman on the Supreme Court for the first time, it was widely viewed as groundbreaking and courageous. Reagan later appointed Sandra Day O’Connor, who sailed through the Senate without a single “no” vote. Supporters included then-Sen. Joe…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Mark Z. Barabak: The architect of Reagan's pledge to put a woman on the Supreme Court says it was all political

The candidate for president was in difficult straits and so he made a promise that would change history.

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Editorial: Tucker Carlson dances on Ronald Reagan's grave with his pro-Russia stand

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has inspired a new following from the extreme right, including some members of Congress, by asking: Why take Ukraine’s side instead of Russia’s? The arguments are vast for defending the sovereignty of democratic Ukraine, and most American adults should need no reminders why containing Moscow’s…

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Stephen L. Carter: Presidents have long wanted a diverse Supreme Court

In the wake of Justice Stephen Breyer’s rumored retirement, an odd controversy has swirled around President Joe Biden’s campaign pledge to appoint a Black woman to the first vacancy. Critics have compared the promise to college admission quotas; supporters have pointed out that President Ronald Reagan fulfilled his own campaign…

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Martin Schram: A tale of presidential press conference secrets

It had been months since the president’s last East Room press conference. And his team’s best and brightest understood that, just like sports stars, all-star political communicators can get rusty riding the bench, away from the game’s give-and-take.

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Jonathan Bernstein: Don’t panic, Joe Biden. Be like Reagan

The New York Times reports that President Joe Biden: “Will retreat from the tangle of day-to-day negotiations with members of his own party that have made him seem powerless to advance key priorities, according to senior White House advisers. The change is part of an intentional reset in how he…

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Presidential Visions for Space Exploration: From Ike to Biden

A brief look at how each American president helped shape and steer American activities in space.

Fortune

Today's GOP: The party's over for big business

In a political arena now dominated by small-business populists, anti-government conservatives, and the religious right, corporate America's the odd man out -- mistrusted, resented, impotent.

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