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From FT, the rise of Newsmax defies media trend. At the pinnacle of media and politics, Roger Ailes of Fox News has an agenda (and more). A look at how the Republican Party is like Domino’s Pizza. More and more on Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal. White Power USA: A look at the rise of Right-wing militias in America. The upcoming Tea Party convention has attracted a large number of the high-profile conservative Christians — could an alliance be next? Samuel Jacobs on the finger-pointing and paranoia that rules the Tea Party Convention. The first senator from the Tea Party: 2010 will be a year of Republican civil war, and Florida is where the fighting is now fiercest. Meet the new GOP centrists: How a formerly fringe caucus is giving Tea Parties a direct line to the Hill. A look at why Harry Reid is receiving a benefit of the doubt that wouldn’t be extended to a Republican leader under similar circumstances. Is an anti-filibuster movement taking hold? As the reach of his alumni has widened, Chuck Schumer has become one of the most powerful men in American politics. So what should liberals and leftists do about the Palin phenomenon? Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster: An excerpt from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (and more and more and more and more). President Obama once praised as a gifted orator, is now facing heat for what some say is a lack of emotion. David Bromwich reviews The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch (and more and more and more).