James Ridgeway

“Ever since Newt Gingrich turned self-hate into a campaign manifesto last November, the GOP has been conducting a risky affair with the far right”

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“The social success of the Shah in the galaxy of international despots is the end result of a careful campaign, premised on two vital ingredients: snobbery and cash.”

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Can the Christian Right organize evangelicals and assure the Republican Party majority status?

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“The struggle between the Aryan resistance movement and the government has intensified since the Oklahoma City bombing, with one cell after another coming to the surface”

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“The release last week of the report of the independent counsel marks a frustrat­ing anticlimax to what clearly is a continuing crisis of American gov­ernment”

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“Geraldine Ferraro's nomination opens a new era of feminist politics, for the first time placing the genuinely radical perspec­tives of the feminist movement in a far broader national arena”

“In a rational world there could indeed be a recovery, but it is plain that the country is not under rational control. Its leaders are unable to focus on reality and drift along on illusions.”

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Curb the Regulators, Shut Down Congress, Humiliate the President: This Is the Real Republican Contract

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“The Reagan administration, rabid on the topic of the Russian threat, has escalated bellicose rhetoric to a level which quite simply terrifies people.”

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June 13, 1989: “This is your time to do something for China. If you don’t stand up now, you may never stand up for any­thing else in your life.”