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Anarchy in the US

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Manchester, Michigan is a 2,000-person village about 25 miles southwest of Ann Arbor. It's roughly as white as an Osmond Family reunion (per the 2010 census seven black people lived in the town). Now the People have risen up against the local school board enacting a...
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Weaponizing Savvy

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Good piece by Perry Bacon Jr. on how Savvy inside-baseball coverage of politics turned particularly disastrous during the rise of Trump: “The Politico model of insider coverage and savvy style of analysis is premised on conditions in politics that became less true over time, which then...
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On Biden’s Foreign Policy Legacy

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At 1945 I put together an argument that Joe Biden was, in an important sense, the only person who could have gotten us out of Afghanistan. Could anyone but Biden have left Afghanistan? The war in Afghanistan engulfed four Presidents over the course of twenty years. The...
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Curbing my enthusiasm

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So at lunchtime I go to get my teeth cleaned, driving 25 minutes to see a dental practice that I started going to 13 years ago, when I lived a lot closer to it. The point being, I really like these people. This was the first...
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