November 18, 1996

The Weekly Standard's post-election issue grappled with Bill Clinton's decisive victory over Bob Dole and the Republicans' mixed results in 1996. While the GOP Congress survived the electoral backlash, the magazine featured critical analysis of why Dole's campaign failed and what the defeat meant for the Republican Party's future direction, with contributions from Charles Krauthammer, John Podhoretz, Fred Barnes, and Matthew Rees examining everything from campaign strategy to the party's loss of moral authority.