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Here are Senate Democrats kneeling in prayer as they honored today the memory of George Floyd with nine minutes of silence. I find this picture moving as well as instructive. It’s not supposed to exist. Democrats can’t exercise faith, because Democrats don’t have any faith, according to people like Dan Patrick, the lt. governor of…

The old order has entered a period of decay and illegitimacy.

With black Americans, they are calling for regime change.

This is what you’d expect from a president acquitted of treason.

In the Monday edition of the Editorial Board, I noted the different ways police departments are handling public outrage, some of it violent, over the murder of George Floyd by a white cop in Minneapolis. Some are flying the Thin Blue Line flag, a symbol of American fascism, while others, including here in New Haven,…

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Cops demonstrate two ways to engage Americans struggling for freedom.

China’s dictator models the glories of the corporatist state.

Peter Coy has a big piece in Businessweek touching on a familiar frame: health vs. wealth. He says the president is gambling on a recharged economy powering him back to the White House. But this framing, and the conventional wisdom it rests on, seems stale. “It’s the economy, stupid” used to have legs, but economic…