December 17, 2019 Issue

Digital Edition

FEATURE

Josh Hawley, populism’s philosopher-in-chief

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✪ Meet the Yang Gang

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

✪ Kamala Harris and the failure of extremely online campaigning

by Noah Rothman

✪ Nikki Haley’s chameleon candidacy

by Philip Klein

✪ The 24-hour Christmas story

by Peter Tonguette

Your Land

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Have a holly, jolly Hanukkah

by Madeline Fry Schultz

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Congress salutes a 100-year-old patriot

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Then and Now: Christmas

by Grant Addison

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Arrowheads and headgear

by Timothy P. Carney

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One man's Christmas wish

by Kaylee McGhee White

Business

BUSINESS

Sen. Pat Toomey, the GOP’s lonely free trader

by Sean Higgins

Letter From The Editor

Washington Briefing

Afghanistan Papers make Trump’s case for ending the war

by Jamie McIntyre

‘They don’t like us’: GOP makes impeachment fight personal

by Susan Ferrechio

Senate centrists expected to stand by Trump with emerging hooks to justify it

by Steven Nelson

House bill targets billions of unwanted robocalls

Wyoming Republican John Barrasso is ‘closing the distance’ on climate change

House Republican says small steps to reform healthcare could lead to big improvements

by Cassidy Morrison

The Columnists

Dan Hannan

Why Putin will never be a friend

Salena Zito

A different kind of celebrity on Twitter

Fred Barnes

Democrats’ nightmares

Byron York

Of course the FBI spied on the Trump campaign

Life & Arts

The big life of Mike Nichols

by Peter Tonguette

Editors’ picks: Books of the decade

by Park MacDougald

New journalism’s queen of cool

by J. Oliver Conroy

Heads will roll

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The all-American Wizard of Menlo Park

by Philip Terzian

Kingdom of heaven

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An education in virtue

by Scott Beauchamp

In Praise of Metternich

by Anthony Paletta

More from the Magazine

Sen. Pat Toomey, the GOP’s lonely free trader

Obituary

Paul Volcker, 1927-2019