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House Democratic Establishment Declares War on Democracy
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7 years ago
The American political system is dominated by a two-party duopoly that uses its control over election laws to suppress challenges to its power. That statement might sound like Nader-ite agit-prop,...
House Democrats Have More Potent Options Than Impeachment - The Atlantic
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The fight between President Donald Trump and House Democrats over the House’s investigations of the president has escalated into what several outletsnow describe as an “all-out war.” Most...
Mueller’s punt keeps looking worse
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Robert Mueller’s report makes the stirring claim that “a fundamental principle of our government” is that no person, not even the president, “is above the law.” But the special counsel’s ultimate...
Pelosi clashes with fellow Dems in closed-door debate on impeachment
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7 years ago
House Democratic leaders sparred internally on Monday over whether to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies rejecting the call to...
David Brooks on Character in the Selfie Age
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7 years ago
Popular New York Times columnist David Brooks argues that meaning and moral value are losing out in a world of ‘me me me’. A witty and powerful look at how we can improve ourselves in the ways...
BREAKING: Situation Worsens In Venezuela, Bolivia, U.S., Japan, Mexico, Iraq, Spain
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WASHINGTON—Confirming recent reports of conditions approaching crisis levels, sources across the globe revealed Thursday that the situation continues to worsen in Venezuela, Bolivia, the United...
Data Science Has Become About Lending False Credibility To Decisions We've Already Made
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One of the greatest failures of data science has been the way in which it has devolved from the genuine search for answers into just another tool to lend credibility to the answers we want. It no...
California May Go Dark This Summer, and Most Aren't Ready
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A plan by California’s biggest utility to cut power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season could plunge millions of residents into darkness. And most people aren’t ready. The...