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Jon Ossoff’s Loss Should Be a Lesson to Corporate Democrats
It’s time to bury the Panera Bread strategy.
D.D. Guttenplan
Who Is Getting Rich Off the Secret Health-Care Overhaul?
A small group of people knows what the public doesn’t, and that’s ripe for scandal.
George Zornick
This Union Ironworker Has a Plan to Beat Paul Ryan
A construction worker takes on the speaker of the House—and sparks fly.
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Culture
If Trump Is Julius Caesar, Then Americans Are a Confused and Violent Mob
Julius Caesar is hardly an endorsement of assassination—but neither is it the celebration of “small-d democrats” that the Public Theatre wants it to be.
Katha Pollitt
Belief in ‘American Gods’
Based on a 2001 novel, the new TV show explores immigration, assimilation, and the march to modernity.
Loren A. Lynch
Mary Gaitskill Remains Open to Opposition
The closest thing we get to a precept in Somebody with a Little Hammer is that we should all try to learn to think for ourselves—and, even then, things can go wrong.
Larissa Pham
Watch and Listen
Listen: LA vs. the Olympics
The resistance to Los Angeles’s Olympic bid is only growing.
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How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political, and environmental commons.
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