Q: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
Sentence 1: Nor is he of any use as an instructional hero--neither a democrat nor a capitalist, he gives little comfort to modern Germany. Sentence 2: He might as well be a republican after all.
A:
slate