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For more than fifty years, The Washington Spectator has offered sharp-eyed investigative reporting and informed political commentary. Under the guidance of current editor Hamilton Fish, the Spectator is focused today on the rise of authoritarian forces that pose a threat to democracy.  A home for many of the country’s leading writers and thinkers, the Spectator is continually working to make sense of what lies ahead, a distinguishing trait that Gore Vidal famously dubbed “early warning journalism.” 

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