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To Russia with love

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https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1403109799689080839 That Trump has a pretty good shot at becoming president again three and a half years from now causes me to check the expiration date on my passport the way a poker player keeps checking a couple of good hole cards, just to make sure...
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Taxes and the plutocracy

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ProPublica scored quite a journalistic coup when somebody or bodies sent the organization many years' worth of tax records of America's wealthiest people. The whole report is here. A couple of comments: the information in these documents raises two related but distinct issues: (1) How much...
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White Fears

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Now I can see why we need to protect Maddie and Connor from going to school with Black kids. Might make their parents feel a bit anxious, having to interaction with the other people! White people often feel anxious about interacting with non-Whites, and they go...
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George Packer has a long article on what he calls the the Four Americas. It's an interesting historical analysis of how the major partisan divides in contemporary America came about, although naturally there are a lot of definitions and details that could be contested. Packer divides...
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