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And the wind began to howl

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The Supreme Court of the United States, by a 5-4 vote, has allowed the Texas legislature to overrule a major federal constitutional precedent, via a procedural trick that was designed explicitly for the purpose of evading federal judicial review. From Sotomayor's dissent: The Court’s order is...

Please take my advice

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Gazillionaire postcast superstar and hero to countless incel dudebros Joe Rogan everybody: Joe Rogan, one of the world's highest paid and most influential podcast hosts, announced Wednesday he has tested.

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Why Training Fails

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By Nardisoero - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47203354 My latest at 1945 touches on a topic that I've been working on since grad school: Can the United States build an army in a foreign country? Recent experience in Afghanistan suggests that the answer is a resounding “no,”...

Also in Texas

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In addition to its Stasi abortion ban, a reminder that Texas Republicans are disenfranchising voters: The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature on Tuesday passed a major bill overhauling the state’s elections, overcoming.

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The center cannot hold

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The perversities of American politics are laid bare by the fact that the first state to functionally ban abortion in contemporary times barely even has a majority of Republican votes, let alone a majority of Republicans (We should never forget that voter suppression, legal and illegal,...
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