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Remember that the three-fifths compromise wasn't a compromise about the rights of enslaved people—enslaved people were considered zero fifths of a person under it, not three. It was about how

Andrew Sullivan's tweets from today are really quite breathtaking—he spent the evening both attacking people for claiming he believes in innate racial differences in intelligence and mocking people for suggesting

Man. AOC out here responding to left-punching with "be more good at politics, whiners." You honestly love to see it.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324694301234921474 And if you want to know what AOC thinks about

I don't understand this impulse. It's not like there are a bunch of Good Militias out there whose name is being sullied by the association of "militia" with white supremacist

Folks who are worried about a 25th Amendment coup against Trump should read the 25th Amendment. It's short, and most of it can be passed over. Section One deals with

Biden isn't pulling negative ads to be nice. Biden is pulling negative ads because the last thing he wants to do is make his campaign tactics the story, and because

If you were wondering whether he has a plan? He doesn't have a plan.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311297684540620801 A centerpiece of the Trump campaign strategy for months has been to paint Biden as a

When the way you maintain power is by disenfranchising people of color, and your self-interest is in disenfranchising people of color, that's white supremacy. It's literally the definition of white

There's something really beautiful to me about high-profile magicians who immerse themselves so deeply in the history of their art that they wind up making choices that only really make

My operating premise is that "Trump winning would be good for the left" tweeters are best ignored for like five different reasons. 1. A bunch of them are just winding

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And

It's hard for me to see how Aaron Coleman's interests are served by this kind of tweet.https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1298298843713474561 There's a lot of screenshots circulating depicting really ugly behavior from Colema