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Joe Biden Gave An Aggressive Defense Of How He Handles Criticism Of His Son
"The appearance looked bad and he acknowledged that. And that’s it, that’s all I’m going to talk about," Biden told reporters aboard his campaign bus a day after a tense exchange with a voter.
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Northeast Democrats like Biden are the most explicit about this but they don't want power. The want divided government. They engineer devided government when the people go and install too many Democrats. buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhip… pic.twitter.com/wiHq5YKBpX
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Making Impeachment Matter
Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear.
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In my latest for the next print issue, I say we took the wrong lessons from the first impeachment of a president
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The fact that the Constitution makes removing a president hard, and the liberal faith in sound Constitutional interpretation producing reasonable outcomes, has misled many into thinking it should be almost impossible to remove an out-of-control president
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There’s Only One Way the Patrick and Bloomberg Campaigns Make Sense
Democratic Party elders are making plans.
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Basically: Team Clinton is anti-Sanders, Team Obama is anti-Warren, everyone is increasingly skeptical of Biden, and the Deval Patrick campaign is not a joke
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Why Hasn't Anyone Mentioned Michael Bloomberg's Long, Well-Documented History of Sexism?
PHILADELPHIA — Last night, former New York mayor and billionaire executive Michael Bloomberg addressed the Democratic National Convention, in prime time, in a speech designed to present the political independent’s case for supporting Hillary Clinton...
The Death of the Rude Press
Deadspin and Splinter were only the most recent victims of a culling that began many years ago.
The Adults In The Room
There is a version of the story of this company in which idealistic journalists, unconcerned with profit, are posed against ruthless business-doers, concerned about profit above all else. That would be a convenient story, pitching me and my...
Brian Cox on bringing Logan Roy and Succession home to Scotland
Brian Cox finds himself here in the homeland, and he’s not going to lie: “That was a shock.” Dundee’s most famous living son – back in…
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Brian Cox was doing a "mid-Atlantic" accent under the impression he was Canadian until midway through season one. This show remains the biggest Anglosphere actor accent catastrophe on television
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Impeachment Shouldn’t Be the Goal of Impeachment
America deserves answers, not closure.
ThinkProgress Was Always Doomed
Independent journalism fits uncomfortably with mainstream think tank politics.
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ThinkProgress was an accident. The liberal donor establishment won't let it happen again.
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Here’s a Better Reason to Unsubscribe From The New York Times
It's not the "newspaper of record." It's a rag for the East Coast rich.
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Don't unsubscribe from the New York Times over a bad headline. Do it because you don't make half-a-million a year or own a home in Scarsdale.
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Mass Shootings Are Destroying Our Sense of Public Space
Gun rampages do more than kill and injure. They also damage Americans’ communal life. Yale sociologist Vida Bajc analyzes the aftershocks.
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"The presence of guns necessitates exactly what people who carry guns say they want to be free from: state interference and control."
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The Media Is Missing the Real Story of Trump’s Racism
It's easy to see why he's attacking politicians of color. Why are Beltway pundits so blind to it?
The Simple, Odious Reason Mitch McConnell Opposes Election Integrity
The sinister influence on the Senate majority leader is not the Kremlin, but a Republican Party that seeks to keep certain Americans from voting.
Cory Booker Chooses the Wrong Side in a New Jersey Street Fight
As the state's governor goes to war with the Democratic machine, the senator-turned-presidential-hopeful embraces its biggest boss.
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New Jersey's Democratic governor is at war with a party machine boss who hijacked an economic development program for his own interests. The boss will host Cory Booker at a fundraiser on Friday. His campaign doesn't want to talk about it.
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Why Are Democrats Such Cowards?
In search of the party's fighting spirit
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I wrote about how Democrats turned conflict aversion into a political ethos, and the alternative
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The Pirates of Tehran
If Iran won’t change its behavior, we should sink its navy.
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I'm not saying everyone at the Times is responsible for this but everyone there should feel responsible for it, a little bit
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Cory Booker Was Once a Foot Soldier for Betsy DeVos
The Democratic candidate claims to be a defender of public education. But in 2000, he hawked school vouchers for the future education secretary.
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You almost have to feel bad for Booker, who spent his entire career carefully doing and believing all the right things to get ahead, only to be made irrelevant because younger Dems hate all those things and the 70-year-olds won't actually go away
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Teenage Pricks | Alex Pareene
Middle schoolers don’t develop political identities in a vacuum. They are reflections of their parents, peers, society, and professional video game streamers.
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In the new Baffler I wrote about how Trumpism operates on the knowledge that some people can get away with anything, and how it offers a false promise to extend that privilege to white kids everywhere
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Democrats Have Created an “Electability” Monster
And this time, it's even eating establishment candidates.