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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 Ph.D. in political science and is working on a book about why the Democrats are so bad at politics.
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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Blurring the lines between sincerity and irony in a presidential campaign is hazardous when the consequences are so real.
Democrats may get one more chance to govern before a competent authoritarian emerges on the right. We can’t waste that opportunity.
An inaccurate count disproportionately harms the young, the elderly, and people of color.
When there is the will to seriously prosecute an officer, the public can hold the police accountable.
It’s much easier to let judges and appointees do the unpopular work of stripping workers of their rights, outlawing abortion, and running the administrative state into the ground.
The media want to depict Trump supporters sympathetically, but the actual beliefs of many of them make that impossible.
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