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To fight fascism, fight the people paying for it. That means raising taxes higher, much higher, on the very obscenely rich
They are preventing the people from flexing the sovereignty that would prevent them from continuing to extract wealth from the people.
Why isn’t the full force of the US government being brought down on the Proud Boys? Democracy and freedom demand it
The FBI has the means, but not the will.
Why we can’t quit polling
Our love of public opinion surveys and data science reflects an aspect of American politics that’s at least skewed, at most broken.
Vaccine holdouts are caving. Lesson for liberals? Respond to authoritarianism with force
They want to be told what to do.
Voting against the full faith and credit of the United States is what you’d expect from the party of political sabotage
The GOP’s war-like hostility isn’t old news. It drives the news.
Do the Democrats have the incentive to attack not only the court’s conservatives but the court’s legitimacy? It seems so
Let’s hope its polling slump is permanent.
Durham’s ‘stop snitching,’ lessons of ‘cancel culture,’ the other Gabby Petitos, Haitian migrants, plus John Stoehr’s week
The weekend edition of the Editorial Board.
What would justice look like if all missing women got the attention Gabby Petito did?
An estimated 64,000-75,000 Black women and girls are missing.
Efforts at ‘border security’ punish the powerless and empower the powerful. It does what the ‘war on drugs’ was designed to do
Start with the fact that it’s a Republican premise.
Haitians should not be sent to Guantanamo
Nobody should.