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House Republicans' 50-page bestseller of cruel, stupid, and costly ideas
Plus we turned orange and got even meaner. Trump has stuck House Republicans with the impossible task of literally reconciling his...
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20 hours ago2 min read
Memo to NYT: "Gestapo" merits much better placement
One employee said it felt like being recruited to the Gestapo . — NY Times DealBook, " Crackdown ," 23 January 2025 The quote's italics...
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1 day ago2 min read
The "civility code" rewritten
This post is a short one for two reasons: Its point is exceedingly simple, and it's already been made by Ken White  of The Popehat...
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2 days ago2 min read
He's beyond loathsome
Neither does grotesque meet the challenge of characterizing with flawless precision the squalid little creature inhabiting the Oval...
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3 days ago3 min read
Trump's betrayal, MAGA, the coming fallout
Evan Vucci/AP Since Time and Life magazines publisher Henry Luce proleptically declared the 20th "The American Century" and Pax Americana...
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4 days ago2 min read
"A day of infamy" - in 1941, a truth; by 2025, a prophecy
Today, a prophecy fulfilled. For more than 80 years Americans could imagine no day of greater infamy. Suddenly the nation was at war by...
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