What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate

Photographs by Yael Malka This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. For most of his life, Mitt Romney has nursed a morbid fascination with his own death, suspecting that it might assert itself one day suddenly and violently. He controls what he can, of course. He wears his seat belt, and diligently applies sunscreen, and stays away from secondhand smoke. For decades, he’s followed his doctor’s recipe for longevity with monastic…

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Romney Was Right About Putin

On October 22, 2012, Mitt Romney sat across a table from President Barack Obama for the final debate of the presidential election. The theme of the night was foreign policy. Obama’s campaign had been working all year to cast Romney as out of touch and inexperienced, and when the moment came, the president deployed what seemed like a devastating putdown. “A few months ago, when you were asked what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia. Not al-Qaeda. You said Russia,” Obama told him. “And the 1980s are…

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Mitt Romney decries US politics: ‘The world is watching with abject horror’ – The Guardian

Mitt Romney decries US politics: ‘The world is watching with abject horror’  The Guardian Republican senator Romney calls out Trump and ‘vile’ US politics  Yahoo News Romney cites Trump’s rhetoric as he denounces ‘vile’ state of American politics  CNN Romney: World Watching US Politics With ‘Horror’  Newser Mitt Romney reprimands Trump, Democrats for ‘vile’ and ‘hate-filled’ politics  USA TODAY View Full Coverage on Google News “us politics” – Google News

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