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Edward Burmila
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Edward Burmila is a Chicago-based writer and host of Mass for Shut-ins , a podcast of leftist politics and historical arcana. He holds a PhD in political science and is working on a book about why the Democrats are so bad at politics.
A narrow Biden victory offers four years of gridlock—and that’s the best-case scenario.
We’d gain precious minutes of our lives that we might otherwise be tempted to waste.
Congress must never again assume presidents will be fundamentally decent folks.
Thomas Frank’s history of anti-populism helps clarify one of the most contested terms in politics.
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Without real economic freedom, Americans cling to petty acts of refusal.
If the Democratic Party won’t listen to the left, it should at least listen to itself from 30 years ago.
Are establishment Democrats really willing to destroy the party on live television?
Laurence Ralph’s The Torture Letters recounts an extensive history of police abuse and violence in the CPD.
Much of the criticism of Sanders for accepting the endorsement rewrites the past and present of Democratic Party electoral politics.
An Indiana city learns that a weak response to white supremacists has predictable consequences.
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