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Feature
These winners will be the big names of our future national politics.
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The weed business promised to save this struggling California town. So far, it’s been a bust.
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Progressives made significant gains, but now they need to organize bigger, better, and smarter.
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Democrats have won back a third of the nearly 1,000 state legislative seats they lost during Obama’s presidency. Can they keep the momentum going?
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Editorial
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Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker have bold new plans to fight poverty, but they miss out on simpler strategy: a child allowance.
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Not to mention 240,000 civilian deaths and 21 million displaced. And yet a congressional commission is urging yet more money for a bloated Pentagon.
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California’s Camp Fire is a reckoning, an alarm shrieking that our leaders won’t save us from climate change—but perhaps we can.
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Column
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The Democratic Party is used to writing off much of the electorate. It can’t get away with that anymore.
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The great electoral opportunity of 2020 is not in converting Trump voters. It’s motivating the large numbers of Americans who don’t vote at all.
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Books & the Arts
Old in Art School recounts the historian’s journey from Sunday painter to professional artist.
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A new history shows that these expressions were originally used in ways that are significantly different from our current understanding of them.
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A new biography of Jimmy Carter’s national-security adviser attempts to place him among the pantheon of master foreign-policy strategists, but was he?
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Letters
Down the rabbit hole… Bird is the word… Forgotten victory… Dump the hump… Road map for change… History repeats itself…