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dave karpf
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Okay, I’ve got a couple of election-aftermath takes I want to share. Each of these ought to be a column, but parenting in apandemicisexhausting. (1/who knows?) First, I know
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Okay, so everyone is dunking on this take. And I’m gonna dunk on it too. But from a sliiiiiightly different angle. I think the Biden/Harris non-answer is basically fine. It’s
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I’m actually optimistic that this Trump taxes NYT story will *matter*, even in this #lolnothingmatters moment in history.That’s not because some crucial subset of voters will read this and change
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There’s a tension in election coverage that is going to become increasingly jarring in the weeks ahead. We’re going to read stories about business-as-usual campaigning, alongside stories of structural voter
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Man, I just listened to @ezraklein interview @Yascha_Mounk on his podcast. For a political scientist who writes a ton about American politics, Mounk *really* needs to reread his E.E. Schattschneider.
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Thinking more about the Tulsa/TikTok thing...I don’t have my copy of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals handy (it’s in the office. The office is closed), but it’s pretty spectacular how many
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My father-in-law just casually asked whether we had a milkman when I was growing up. You, know, like a dude who goes door-to-door delivering milk. Like in the fifties. I
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Folks, Bret Stephens’s latest column might be an instant-classic within his oeuvre. He thinks the problem with the Trump administration’s bungled response isn’t corruption or incompetence. He thinks it’s a
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