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I started the Editorial Board in 2018 to give normal people a place to read about American politics.
I can be blunt. But I’m relentlessly honest.
I don’t think much matters without loyalty to the truth.
—John Stoehr
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Reclaiming ‘entitlement,’ bye-bye TJ, gerrymanders, Big Biz Gospel, Haitian kids, real Colin Powell obit, plus John Stoehr’s week
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Why does a democratic republic founded in opposition to monarchy tolerate billionaires?
They are never self-made.
What is gerrymandering and why does a democracy allow it to be used to protect white power?
A legal history of congressional district map-making.
Creating a counter-conservatism
Make more room in the Democratic Party.
America is growing skeptical of the Gospel of Big Business
Are tax breaks for Amazon tribute or sacrifice?
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Not your dad’s conservatives: Today’s GOP wants candidates to say how they’ll use the state to keep white people on top
See Glenn Youngkin’s vow to ban “CRT.”
New York can now celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s ideals without idolizing the slave holder himself
The City Council is taking down the memorial to him.
How are we going to explain to Haitian kids what the US did to their parents? That democracy is a nice idea, applicable to some?
America’s insatiable paranoia over border security.
Let’s rethink what it means to be entitled, because it doesn’t mean what Joe Manchin says it means
It shouldn’t be negative and we should be proud.