December 10, 2019 Issue

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FEATURE

Small-town America fights for its life

by Timothy P. Carney

✪ The virtue of vengeance

by Thane Rosenbaum

✪ How we learned to stop worrying and love the blobmobile

by Nicholas Clairmont

✪ Lebanon is gone

by Tony Badran

Your Land

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Pothole problem

by Kaylee McGhee White

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Word of the Week: Malarkey

by Nicholas Clairmont

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No more ‘weed with Willie’

by Madeline Fry Schultz

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Egg Bowl dog pee celebration

by Quin Hillyer

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A matter of life and death

by Madeline Fry Schultz

Business

Letter From The Editor

Washington Briefing

Trump EPA can help companies and prosecute them, former EPA official says

Democrats plan to tie impeachment to Russia

by Susan Ferrechio

New rash of privacy bills working its way through the Senate

A year-end report card on Trump’s biggest national security headaches

by Jamie McIntyre

Google’s most tenacious pest: Yelp’s Luther Lowe

by Nihal Krishan

Democratic lawmakers: Amtrak’s new arbitration policy will ‘stack the deck’ against consumers

The Columnists

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Dan Hannan

Will the Brexit Party prevent Brexit?

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Salena Zito

He makes a village

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Fred Barnes

Trump’s ‘abnormal’ advantages

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Philip Klein

Four possible outcomes of 2020 and what they’d mean for conservatism and socialism

Life & Arts

LBJ’s Great Folly

Captain America

by Martin Kaufmann

The elegiac beauty of The Irishman

by Daniel Ross Goodman

How Mike ‘The Elf’ Shannon saved Christmas

I can’t get no Santasfaction

More from the Magazine

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Obituary

D.C. Fontana, 1939-2019

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