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Before we get to the games, Tanier has a good post about how inept personnel people somehow keep avoiding the axe on Black Friday: The Broncos fired head coach Vance Joseph after two seasons of failing to overcome team president John Elway’s spectacularly misguided quarterback decisions and the famine-stricken draft classes of 2012 through 2017. […]
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“Extremism”

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On January 4, 2019
You will be shocked that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call to return the top marginal rate to the level it was under known Trotskyist Jimmy Carter is scandalizing centrist pundits: All of which is to say: In 1980, taxing incomes above $216,000 (or $658,213 in today’s dollars) at 70 percent was considered a moderate, mainstream idea, even […]

This Will Be Bad

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Ruh-roh: The Supreme Court once again will take up unresolved constitutional questions about partisan gerrymandering, agreeing Friday to consider rulings from two lower courts that found congressional

More of This

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I love these new progressive women of color in Congress. Hours after she was sworn in to Congress, Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib used an expletive Thursday in pushing for impeaching President

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There is a curious disjuncture in this claim that you can draw strong inferences about national candidate quality from state and local election results: By this measure Bernie and Beto look pretty good, Harris/Warren look bad, and Klobuchar/Brown/Baldwin look like champs winning big in *the* key swing region. — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 29, 2018 […]

Race and Schools

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I know how much LGM readers hate talking about how their school choices directly lead to reinforcing racism, but the fact is that they do. Noah Berlatsky–who admits the choices he makes for his

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As I’ve argued before, D.C. v. Heller was actually a modest opinion, and the federal government and most states and localities have enacted far less gun control legislation that the case’s holding permits (or, in some cases, does not obviously forbid.) The primary barrier to robust gun control has been political, not the Constitution or […]
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