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Creating a counter-conservatism
Make more room in the Democratic Party.
America is growing skeptical of the Gospel of Big Business
Are tax breaks for Amazon tribute or sacrifice?
Not your dad’s conservatives: Today’s GOP wants candidates to say how they’ll use the state to keep white people on top
See Glenn Youngkin’s vow to ban “CRT.”
New York can now celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s ideals without idolizing the slave holder himself
The City Council is taking down the memorial to him.
How are we going to explain to Haitian kids what the US did to their parents? That democracy is a nice idea, applicable to some?
America’s insatiable paranoia over border security.
Let’s rethink what it means to be entitled, because it doesn’t mean what Joe Manchin says it means
It shouldn’t be negative and we should be proud.
Is the white backlash working? Virginia’s race for governor might have the answer
It’s not just a locals only election.
His life made the world worse
Colin Powell, 1937-2021.
When democracy is at stake, policies are secondary. The only question is this: Do you want the assholes to be in charge?
The press and pundit corps are not normal people.
Preventing felons from voting is just how it is, right? Wrong. There’s a history. There were choices. And we can change it.
With our democracy under siege, we should use all legal arguments to restore voting rights to as many people as possible.