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Five Arrested at Susan Collins’s Office for Sit-In Over Tax Bill

Matthew McDonald

U.S. Senator Susan Collins, a liberal-leaning Republican from Maine, voted for the Republicans' tax reform bill, surprising some observers. Five protesters sat in her office in Bangor and refused to leave until they were arrested.

Reagan-Bush ’17?
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Reagan-Bush ’17?

Ira Stoll

The most jarring image of the past couple weeks appeared in the New York Times, alongside a surprisingly positive profile of 33-year-old conservative pundit Benjamin Shapiro.

It was a photograph of Mr. Shapiro's supporters at the University of Utah. One of the students was wearing a "Reagan Bush '84" T-shirt.

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