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The Thin Blue Line Is Cracking. Good
Cops demonstrate two ways to engage Americans struggling for freedom.
Naming America’s Political Perverts
Another aspect of barbarism in the age of Donald Trump.
Trump Is Turning America into China
China’s dictator models the glories of the corporatist state.
Does the economy matter in 2020?
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…
Donald Trump and the Age of Barbarism
We can’t shame the GOP, but we can name their behavior.
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Land of the Weak, Home of the Depraved
The Memorial Day Weekend showed us who we are.
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