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A radical third of the country dictates the terms of democracy
It is entitled to use political violence.
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Wages are dampening inflation, not supercharging it
But status quo elites blame workers. They demand more “discipline” with higher interest rates and higher rates of unemployment.
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The Republican’s danse macabre
Yes, even if they suffer, too. It’s frivolous and terrifying.
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SCOTUS ignores its own rulings to keep executions going
A death row man ate his own eye. Justices said whatevs.
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In ‘correcting’ GOP metaphors, liberals reveal their denial
Democrats and liberals just have to keep on keeping on even when, or especially when, keeping on keeping on is exhausting.
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John Fetterman and the last consequence-free stigma
How to slander 61 million Americans.
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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.
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There’s no reason to freak out
Monday’s polling just tells us there’s work to do.
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Drop the idea that ‘no one is above the law’
It does more harm than good.
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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.
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After Rushdie’s attack, is America still a refuge for writers in exile?
We seem to be dodging the question.
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‘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.