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Neal Gabler

Neal Gabler is the author of “Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality.”

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The Republican long game: Killing welfare

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The rules according to Trump

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Trump isn’t a politician, he’s an entertainer

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America’s biggest divide: winners and losers

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What Trump’s Putin love reveals about conservatives

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Trump bet Americans would like his un-Presidential antics. He may be right

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Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is seen after it was vandalized in Los Angeles, California U.S., October 26, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

Our celebrity president would rather show off than get down to business

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Your health may be in Susan Collins’ hands, and that’s not good news

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Don’t count on the precedent of Watergate to help depose Trump. We got lucky

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President Donald Trump holds up an executive order to tighten the rules for technology companies seeking to bring highly skilled foreign workers to the U.S., before signing, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at Snap-On Tools in Kenosha, Wis. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) (AP)

A sham presidency’s legacy: What will be the defining image of the Trump administration?

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The 100 days that turned America upside down

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The New York Times makes nice with the right by adding ex-Wall Street Journal writer Bret Stephens

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Reality-show presidency goes to war: Why Trump was able to sucker the world on Syria

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Has the Trump budget blown Republican’s cover?

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The Media’s Rapid Retreat

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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. Can this team pull together? A big meeting of conservative activists exposes the tenuous alliance between President Donald Trump, an unorthodox Republican, and the ideological movement that helped elect him. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

The Manchurian President: A classic Hollywood thriller tells us more about America than any history book

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What boundaries? White House Correspondents’ Dinner creates unholy cohabitation of press, politicians

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High-concept presidency: Trump’s election shows how much the line between entertainment, politics has blurred

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President-elect Donald Trump listens to a question as he speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

A tale of two countries: Thanks to President Trump, America is now engaged in a civil war of sorts

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Obama nostalgia matters: He’s consequential because he’s good and because he asked that we be good, too

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Come as you are: Here’s where we go after cycling through the stages of grief

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Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible?

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This 1962 image released by Cohen Media Group shows Francois Truffaut, left, and director Alfred Hitchcock in a scene from Kent Jones’s documentary, "Hitchcock/Truffaut." The new documentary by critic, filmmaker and New York Film Festival head Kent Jones, is about that extraordinary meeting and its long reverberations through cinema. (Philippe Halsman/Cohen Media Group via AP) (AP)

All noise, no sense: Alfred Hitchcock explains James Comey, the media and 2016’s MacGuffin

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks on as Juanita Broaddrick speaks before the second presidential debate with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Washington University, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) (AP)

Donald Trump’s great TV karma: The very thing that created Trump is destroying him

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