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NEPOTISM….Writing in this month’s Atlantic, Saul Bellow’s kid says nepotism is good! As long as you follow the Three Laws of Compassionate Nepotism, that is.
Armed Liberal thought he must have been missing the joke, but he wasn’t. Bellow is serious.
The Supreme Court’s ruling eviscerating Section 2 of the landmark law is only part of its project.
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The Founders designed our democracy with a failsafe against would-be despots: impeachment.
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The Class of 2026 is graduating into a democracy in freefall. Their speakers owe them more than recycled anecdotes.
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His administration had to drop the case to get a new fed chair, but it could be revived amid a flurry of selective prosecutions.
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An economist’s answer for why you deserve a raise and why a higher minimum wage won’t hurt the economy.
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Besides being immoral, political assassins repeatedly fail to achieve their intended objectives.
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Despite Trump’s punitive spectacles, reform efforts persist across states, and there’s hope for policies that draw on the best traditions from both the left and right.
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