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On the debt-ceiling, the Republicans are willing to wreck the economy but the Democrats are unwilling to stop them
It doesn’t have to be this way.
There’s no reason to freak out
Monday’s polling just tells us there’s work to do.
Drop the idea that ‘no one is above the law’
It does more harm than good.
The J6 committee dares Merrick Garland to do something
Steve Bannon is already awaiting sentencing for defying the J6 Committee’s subpoena. It could happen again.
After Rushdie’s attack, is America still a refuge for writers in exile?
We seem to be dodging the question.
‘Anti-woke’ critics are not defending free speech. They’re defending the status quo from ordinary, democratic politics
The true choice has always been the politics of reform or the politics of the status quo. Both, however, are products of democracy.
Who needs affirmative action when we have racism?
Leveraging white power can produce the same results.
Pot pardons aren’t meaningless, but they aren’t enough either
The racist consequences of the “war on drugs” are still with us.
Democracy isn’t the only thing on the ballot. So are criminals
Replacing a democratic rule of law with a fascist one.
For white evangelical Protestants, power is religion
Herschel Walker’s hypocrisy won’t deter their vote.