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Hastert rule still dead

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McCarthy let Democrats bail him out again: In the end, the 45-day funding patch that is on track to keep the government open passed with more Democratic than GOP votes, in a repeat of the spring debt vote that first inflamed McCarthy’s opponents. The bill was...

Music Notes

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First, my apologies--I unintentionally scheduled this for sometime last week when it was about 10% completed so there's a bunch of comments about what the heck is going on here..

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A Major Progressive Leader Dies

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A major leader in the nation's liberal/progressive movement died yesterday. No, I am not talking about Dianne Feinstein, who was major but not particularly liberal and extremely not progressive. No, I am talking about United Steel Workers president Tom Conway. Conway was not a spotlight hogging...
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Election of the day: Slovakia

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Today, Slovakia will elect a new parliament. The government that emerged from the 2020 election had been a cobbled-together coalition led by the somewhat incoherent disorganized conservative populist party OL'aNO, the "Ordinary People and Independent Personalities" party, and three other smaller parties. The coalition was never...
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Baseline rates and statistical analysis

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Andrew Gelman points to recent comments from me and Nate Silver regarding the significance of age in the 2024 presidential race to make some interesting points about the uses and limitations of statistical analysis in this kind of context. Gelman takes my observation about the doubling...
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