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FEATURES DISPATCHES
36 View from the Texas borderlands 9 News / Human Race /
Quotables / Quick Takes
When is a wall a wall? When is it a metaphor?
42 The faces of Team Trump CULTURE
21 Movies & TV / Books /
President-elect Donald Trump is assembling a mix of old and new
Children’s Books / Q&A / Music
players to run his administration
46 Baltic alert NOTEBOOK
107 Lifestyle / Technology /
Troop buildups and new leaders on both sides of the Atlantic could
Money / Science
spell opportunity for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and testing for NATO
50 Kings and pawns VOICES
New York hosted a historic World Chess Championship, but chess– 6 Joel Belz
highly popular in schools–struggles at the professional level 18 Janie B. Cheaney
54 Fair or foul? 34 Mindy Belz
113 Mailbag
As some evangelical leaders push a compromise on LGBT
legislation, more are slamming on the brakes 115 Andrée Seu Peterson
116 Marvin Olasky
NEWS OF THE YEAR
60 Photos / 80 Events / 94 Deaths
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VOICES  Joel Belz WHEREVER YOU’RE CALLED,
ments. Indeed, the lightweight wackos that
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some had predicted simply didn’t show up. And
if several of the appointees—like Betsy DeVos
as secretary of education and Tom Price as
head of the Department of Health and Human
Services—had a distinct ideological flavor, they
also brought with them undeniable leadership
Improbable things
and managerial records. And the ideological tilt
seemed a fitting response to a government that
for eight years had leaned radically to the left.
TRUMP HAS BROUGHT PLEASANT SURPRISES
Oh, yes. The stock market responded opti-
AFTER A MESSY ELECTION SEASON
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have predicted the fallout with any accuracy? come weeks before what many
Our focus for the past 18 months had been on voters and observers consider
that inexplicable man with orange hair—the the biggest test of all. That will
one who was going to go nowhere politically come sometime in January
and who probably would pull down the whole when the new president, prop-
Republican Party with him. The side effects, we erly sworn in, fills the yawning
were told, would be catastrophic and terrifying. vacancy on the Supreme Court.
So what are the initial indicators of all those For millions of voters, that’s
dire consequences? On several almost totally what the recent election was all
Start, if you will, on election night. about. I could point right now to several dozen
crucial fronts,
Especially if you were inclined to think, as so personal friends who told me during the cam-
the civic
many of us were, that Trump was headed for a paign that their only meaningful consideration
big defeat, it was dizzying to ponder what it wreckage was the hundreds of thousands of babies whose
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volatile personality ever attract a cadre of I’m not sure what I’d do right now if I had
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