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Author: Scott Lemieux

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Well waddya know: With President Trump facing an impeachment trial over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden, Russian military hackers have been boring into the Ukrainian gas company at the center of...
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Slow Walking For Trump

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On January 13, 2020
Good piece by Dahlia Lithwick and Barry Friedman about how Republican justices are deliberately and unnecessarily letting cases drag out to benefit Republican politicians: What’s stunning is the degree to which the courts are complicit in all this. The courts have aided and abetted the...
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Divisional Round Open Thread

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On January 11, 2020
Vikings (+7) over 49ERS As with last week, this is a pro-Vikings rather than anti-49ers pick. Shanahan and Lynch have done a great job in Santa Clara, and I'm inclined to think that the 49ers are the second-best team left on the postseason: they're good...
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Taking the Grift Home

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On January 10, 2020
A sad Trombone, playing Enya: Marianne Williamson, the self-help author and spiritual adviser whose long-shot presidential campaign called for reparations and a Department of Peace, announced on Friday that she would drop out of the race.“I stayed in the race to take advantage of every...
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