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Mike Littwin

   

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Littwin: The terror of the Nice attack is a test

Photo Eric Gaillard/Reuters When you see Reuters photographer Eric Gaillard's photograph of the small body lying covered in the street, a child's doll at its...

Littwin: Are we a nation in the midst of crisis — or just an election...

The question after Dallas, after Baton Rouge, after Falcon Heights, is whether we are a nation in the midst of crisis or simply a...

Littwin: Summer of rage, summer of outrage

The temptation is to say that we've reached a breaking point. That the center cannot hold. That, as The New York Post irresponsibly splashed...

Littwin: On a bad day for Clinton, Trump still loses

FBI Director James Comey, whose reputation as a truth-teller was forever sealed when he served as deputy attorney general in the Bush administration, was...

Littwin: In Colorado, speechgoers got full-on Trump

There are two kinds of Trump speeches. There's the teleprompter, sort-of-on-message, actually-has-a-topic-line speech, and there's the unscripted, off-topic, meandering, no-message-whatsoever, let-Trump-be-Trump speech. If you watched...

Littwin: With Glenn’s win, it’s time to retire the Cory Gardner playbook

OK, now that self-declared Christian conservative constitutionalist Darryl Glenn is officially the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, it seems we can officially retire...

Littwin: As dawn breaks upon a new world, Trump thinks only of himself

If I read my Twitter feed correctly, the lesson that Americans should take from Brexit is not that the European project has been turned...

Littwin: This election will be a referendum on Trump

For those keeping score at home, we are back to the Donald-Trump-is-doomed phase of the game. It should be familiar to all of us by...

Littwin: No tragedy is too horrible for Trump to exploit

The predictability of Donald Trump's reaction to the horror in Orlando does not make it any less shocking. As you must have heard, and...

Littwin: Time and tide and politics wait for no man, not even Bernie

Bernie Sanders was always going to do the right thing. The question was how quickly and at what price. Now we know. Once, Sanders was running...
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