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PoliticsNovember 5, 2020
The Election Nobody Won
A narrow Biden victory offers four years of gridlock—and that’s the best-case scenario.
Edward Burmila
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Election 2020September 21, 2020
Cancel the Presidential Debates—Permanently
We’d gain precious minutes of our lives that we might otherwise be tempted to waste.
Edward Burmila
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CongressSeptember 8, 2020
With Executive Powers, Trump Can Legally Unleash Global Chaos
Congress must never again assume presidents will be fundamentally decent folks.
Edward Burmila
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PoliticsAugust 19, 2020
What Populism Is and Is Not
Thomas Frank’s history of anti-populism helps clarify one of the most contested terms in politics.
Edward Burmila
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PoliticsJuly 20, 2020
You’re Only As Free as You Are Wealthy
Without real economic freedom, Americans cling to petty acts of refusal.
Edward Burmila
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PoliticsApril 7, 2020
When Centrists Sounded Like Bernie
If the Democratic Party won’t listen to the left, it should at least listen to itself from 30 years ago.
Edward Burmila
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ActivismMarch 2, 2020
A Brokered Convention Would Be an Ugly Act of Self-Sabotage
Are establishment Democrats really willing to destroy the party on live television?
Edward Burmila
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Books and IdeasFebruary 27, 2020
The Chicago Police Department’s History of Torture
Laurence Ralph’s The Torture Letters recounts an extensive history of police abuse and violence in the CPD.
Edward Burmila
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PoliticsJanuary 27, 2020
Beating Trump Is the Goal. What if Joe Rogan Fans Will Help?
Much of the criticism of Sanders for accepting the endorsement rewrites the past and present of Democratic Party electoral politics.
Edward Burmila
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Racism and DiscriminationAugust 19, 2019
White Supremacy Is Terrorism, Not a Difference of Opinion
An Indiana city learns that a weak response to white supremacists has predictable consequences.
Edward Burmila