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Feb 13, 2019
Journalism has a problem. And journalism's problem is democracy's problem
You'll miss us when we're gone
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Feb 6, 2019
Your feelings don't trump women's right to bodily autonomy
Roe v. Wade established abortion as a right – and rights, by definition, aren’t up for public referendum
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Jan 30, 2019
Donald Trump may believe he's a genius, but Nancy Pelosi is way better at this game than he is
Not in her house
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Jan 23, 2019
I've seen that look before
Fundamentalism teaches kids that they're better than marginalized communities, because God has blessed them
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Jan 16, 2019
The wall is a pointless solution to a crisis of Trump's own invention
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Jan 9, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has sealed her legacy, no matter where her political career goes from here
The politics of dancing
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Jan 2, 2019
An alternate history: What if Bill had kept it in his pants?
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Dec 26, 2018
10 observations after two years of Trump
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Dec 19, 2018
The Trump admin stuffed a whole month’s worth of insanity into just 168 hours
Meltdown!
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Dec 12, 2018
How the minority imposes its will in direct defiance of the majority's wishes
Tyranny of the few
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Dec 5, 2018
Can our institutions keep the presidential malignancy in check?
The Great American Stress Test
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Nov 28, 2018
Authoritarian regimes are rooted in fear and hatred of 'the other.' Sound like anyone you know?
Fear and loathing
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Nov 14, 2018
After two terms of Rick Scott's cruel, corrupt, mismanaged administration, nearly 4.1 million of you still voted for this tapeworm
A republic, if you can stop fucking it up
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Nov 6, 2018
The closing days of the midterm elections portend an ominous final two years of Trump’s presidency
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Oct 24, 2018
Your last, best chance to save the American experiment
Battle hymn of the republic
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Oct 10, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation exposed a deep cancer in the American body politic
The game is rigged
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Sep 12, 2018
Rats desert ship, judicial nominee lies his face off, Florida pols make no sense at all and oh yeah, RIP Rich DeVos
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Aug 29, 2018
The hagiography of John Sidney McCain
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Aug 15, 2018
Tragedy, farce, whatever: The mess we've made of American politics
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Jul 25, 2018
On the one-year anniversary of Billy Manes' death, we stop to wonder what he would make of this shitshow administration
The persistence of resistance
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Jul 11, 2018
Anthony Kennedy is retiring. How fucked are we?
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Jun 27, 2018
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We're better than Trump's border cruelty (and other lies we tell ourselves)
This is America
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Jun 13, 2018
Donald Trump and the new world order
Life in hell
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May 30, 2018
Trump's authoritarian instincts came out to play this week
Mango Mussolini
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May 9, 2018
Despite all the scandals, Trump's approval ratings are ticking up. Let's talk about that
Teflon Don
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