The biggest public health crisis in America is increasingly a partisan one: Democratic areas are largely getting vaccinated while Republican areas lag far behind. This is a particularly large problem as the Delta variant sweeps across the country, with the overwhelming majority of hospitalizations and 99% of deaths among the unvaccinated. In terms of persuading […]
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DeSantis Didn’t Win the Pandemic, After All
How the Florida governor took a premature victory lap—and how traditional media helped him.
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The Sound and the Fury Is the Book for Our Political Moment
How Faulkner’s four narrators delineate Biden-era constituencies.
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What Biden’s Antitrust Order Does for Farmers
It could spell the end of prohibitions on repairing farm equipment, imposing non-compete clauses, and other Big Ag abuses.
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Renewal in a West Virginia Coal Town
Inside the life of a rural hospital.
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How to Get Labor Law Reforms Past the Filibuster
With creative cherry-picking and a tweak here and there, the PRO Act can be folded into a Senate reconciliation bill.
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Inside Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s 75th Wedding Anniversary
A recently rehabilitated president celebrates with friends and family.
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Demanding Climate Courage Is Good, Actually
Why Matt Yglesias is wrong to urge environmental activists to moderate.
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The Vexing Obstacle to Police Reform: A Cop’s Miserable Life
A deluge of 911 calls, little interaction with solid citizens, an “Us vs. Them” mentality—it’s breaking the country’s police forces. A veteran reporter explains why the blue have a bad attitude.
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Voters Don’t Credit Biden for Their $1400 Stimulus Checks—and That’s Okay
Drawing the wrong lesson from Obama’s “invisible” stimulus bill.
