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Biden Is Right to Stay Out of Hungary’s Culture War

DALIBOR ROHAC: The White House should deny Viktor Orbán the fight he clearly craves.

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Mona Charen: on our Electoral FUBARS

Mona Charen and Charlie Sykes discuss New York's election mess, privatizing the national Guard, the racism of Paul Gosar, and the right's Lizard Brain.

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JVL: The economy looks kind of crazy.

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Joe Biden: Iran Hawk?

SHAY KHATIRI: Half a year into his presidency, he has ordered more strikes on Iran’s forces than Trump, Obama, W. Bush, Clinton, and H.W. Bush combined.

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From The Bulwark Aggregator…

• Ohio is the epicenter of the Republican civil war—and Trump is winning – Josh Kraushaar, National Journal

• Trump-Loving Junk-Car Billionaire Pays for Kristi Noem to Send Troops to Border – William Bredderman, The Daily Beast

• How Underground Fiber Optics Spy on Humans Moving Above – Matt Simon, Wired

• Arkansas Deputy Kills Teen ‘Armed’ With Antifreeze Trying To Fix a Truck – Scott Shackford, Reason

• The Family Behind the Covid Bleach Cure Was Making a Fortune – Thomas Buckley, Bloomberg Businessweek

• Arizona ballot audit shows signs of backfiring on GOP – Marc Caputo, Politico

• Josh Mandel’s staff quit campaign because of toxic work environment created by staffer in relationship with Mandel, sources say – Laura A. Bischoff and Haley BeMiller, The Columbus Dispatch

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