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This is a useful thread from @Nate_Cohn and I would say that liberals need to conceptualize the problem as an interlocking set of failures of democratic legitimacy. Neither George W
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I guess nobody cares about reality anymore but the whole point of @nhannahjones’ essay was an explication of how she found her way to a patriotic understanding of American history.https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1306674413752979459
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Yesterday I said with regard to @pareene’s take about making things work that to improve bus service we need to make government more technocratic & less responsible to people who
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Here’s @AlecMacGillis on a huge practical impediment to reform — when you try to create more accountability for police, they punish elected officials (and the public) by not doing their
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A lot of things have happened that have surprised me on one level or another but the big one is that a year ago I’d have said a Trump-led United
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One slightly against the grain way to think about it is the GOP declining to write a platform *underscores* their commitment to the orthodox conservative policy ideas that happen to
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Kamala Harris’ life is a great multigenerational immigrant success story — one that’s a little unusually extreme, but per @leah_boustan, @m_clem and others actually typical in its direction. A great
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Okay so I was in Chicago for the first time and struck by its bigness and I wanted to know what’s up. NYC —> Wall StreetLA —> MoviesDC —> The
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This is a useful thread that does a good job of explicating the big picture conceptual stakes in some of these policing debates.https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1293538832638529536 And it is definitely true that when
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It would be better, all things considered, to go back to the norm where everyone has to dress up (suits/ties for men, etc.) for work at office jobs.https://twitter.com/MattOsterndorf/status/1290831783710330881 Just as
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As you may have heard, I have written a book.It is called ONE BILLION AMERICANS and it will be released on September 15. But this week we are trying to
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Some thoughts on police:America absolutely needs more spending on social programs! But if you compare the US to Europe, it’s simply not the case that police spending is what’s stopping
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