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Michael Signer

Michael Signer is the author of the new book “Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father”

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It’s the complexity, stupid! The embarrassing truth about the unqualified, underprepared GOP field

Michael Signer
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David Brooks, wrong again: What “religious freedom” proponents don’t understand about the Constitution

Michael Signer
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Ted Cruz and our cynical “Walking Dead” politics: “He’s a complete charlatan, you know”

Michael Signer