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If millions can’t afford roofs over their heads, the floor will fall out from under the country’s feet
We cannot continue to choose this broken system.
The next time the GOP attempts a coup d’état, it won’t be loud. It will be quiet. It will be legal
The press and pundit corps should assume this in all political discourse.
At his best and most useful
Richard Trumka (1949-2021)
We can enrage liars by telling them the truth or we can neutralize them by telling them to stop lying
The choice is ours. Time is running out.
People who desire a leader to save them from the humiliations of democracy are people who will do what they’re told
No, you’re wrong. The authoritarians among us do not want freedom.
The Harvey Weinstein of politics
The most damning account of sexual predation by a public official in living memory.
Is the era of NIMBYism giving way to a new era of YIMBYism? Data suggests big changes ahead
The old arguments no longer hold up, writes Christopher Jon Sprigman.
Toxic masculinity is killing us
Whether the obsession with guns or refusal of vaccines.
Here’s why a vaccine mandate would convince authoritarian holdouts to get the shot voluntarily
The key is understanding what they fear.
We conquered the moon, the genome and the microchip. We can’t get people vaccinated?
What’s killing us, literally, is a stunning lack of ideas.