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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.
An Indiana city learns that a weak response to white supremacists has predictable consequences.
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.
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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.
In the age of Trump, believers of the once-popular tenets of scientific racism are feeling emboldened.
With Bannon out of favor, is Fox morning-show host Steve Doocy now Trump’s top adviser?
The GOP tax plan harks back to an idea that the poor should be humiliated and the rich are virtuous.
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