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The case for centering Biden’s stutter and more from the week
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Sadly, for Trump, Arizona’s abortion ban is bullshit-resistant
It’s a real policy problem. Naturally, he has no idea what to do.
Let’s center Biden’s stutter
We should recognize the product of a lifetime of effort borne of hardship: a brain that’s fitter than the average 81-year-old’s.
Maga blots out democracy’s sun
Since the last solar eclipse, we have learned that Trumpism is a dangerous political religion that has no rules, writes Claire Bond Potter.
Will Sonia Sotomayor pull a last-minute Anthony Kennedy?
Seems unlikely, writes Stephen Robinson.
Not just a spoiler. A conspirator
“The Kennedy voter and the Trump voter – our mutual enemy is Biden,” said Rita Palma, Robert F Kennedy Jr’s New York campaign director.
Podcast: Maga is the newest, and oldest, American myth
Claire Bond Potter interviews Richard Slotkin, author of “A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America.”
Trump super fans are impossible to argue with because they don’t actually believe in logic
Helping people out of a cult begins by understanding why they are in it, writes Matthew Sheffield.
Third parties are a scam, and more from the week
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No Labels is gone for now, but ‘centrism’ is never going away
Its vision of “unity” has always been a product of makebelieve.