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Warner

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On most issues, we worry about two Democrats being awful and destroying progressive change for their own reasons--Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema. But on labor issues, the problem is definitely not Manchin, although Sinema may still be a problem. It's Mark Warner, who is pretty awful....
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The patriots of 1/6

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Over the past five months, the violent insurrection unleashed by Donald Trump on the United States capitol and Congress on January 6th has undergone quite a special metamorphosis inside the right wing epistemic bubble. What began as a shocking event that produced almost universal condemnation among...
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Courtroom Access and the Pandemic

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Good piece here on one of the ways that the pandemic intersects with the criminal injustice system: Here in San Francisco, over 100 people are still languishing in jail awaiting trial past the last day in which they must be legally brought to trial — the...
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This is the grave of Bat Masterson. The thing to understand up front about people such as Masterson, or anyone who was involved in the "classic" western gunfights of the post-Civil War period is that they were all violent thugs. As my undergraduate advisor Richard Maxwell...
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