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The Trump Transition

How to Fix the NIH
Too many Americans are chronically ill. The new director of our National Institutes of Health has a mandate to change this.
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Joseph Marine
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Why Does Pete Hegseth Keep Talking About ‘Warfighters’?
As a Fox host, Hegseth successfully urged Trump to pardon several soldiers convicted of war crimes. Is that who he’ll support as defense secretary?
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Elliot Ackerman
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Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship, and Dining with Trump
The billionaire on the left’s war on Silicon Valley, why AI censorship is “a million times more dangerous” than social media censorship, and why he’s…
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Bari Weiss
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Preemptive Pardons Are a Terrible Idea
No president has ever issued preemptive pardons to an entire class of people. If Biden does it, it will mark a further degradation of American politics.
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Eli Lake
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Will Kash Patel Fix the FBI—or Break It?
With his pick for FBI director, Donald Trump has found someone who despises the deep state as much as he does.
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Eli Lake
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The Real Hunter Biden Scandal
The pardon is the least of it. The government weaponized the justice system to go after Donald Trump, but looked the other way at Hunter’s influence…
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Eli Lake
521
Poetic Justice for Jay Bhattacharya
During the pandemic, the NIH director called for a ‘takedown’ of the Stanford scientist’s ideas. Now he’s poised to run the NIH himself.
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The Editors
312
The Tulsi Gabbard Smears Are Unfounded, Unfair, and Unhelpful
Take issue with her views on Russia and Syria, not her motives.
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Eli Lake
343
Peggy Noonan on How to Save America
‘Any jackass can knock down a barn, but it takes a man to build one.’ The columnist sounds off on populism, Trump, and the fragility of American…
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Bari Weiss
689
The Case Against RFK Jr.
A man who asserts nonsense about vaccines and HIV should not be at the helm of Health and Human Services, writes former Harvard Medical School dean…
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Jeffrey S. Flier
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TGIF: The Ten-Pound Brain Administration
The tales of Ann Selzer, Matt Gaetz, Jeff Bezos, Allison Pearson, Ramon Rivera, Gabrielle Union, Bernie Sanders, RFK Jr., and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.
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Nellie Bowles
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Immigration Is a Mess. Here’s How to Fix It.
We need a plan that supports cultural dynamism and protects American workers. Ten common-sense proposals from Reihan Salam.
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Reihan Salam
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