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December 30, 2019/January 6, 2020
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Feature
Even in deep-red states, voters vigorously defend the program—and they know which party is attacking it.
Representative Jamie Raskin has been training for the Trump impeachment inquiry his whole life.
Only mass protests can turn a narrow Beltway scandal into a massive anti-Trump weapon.
Editorial
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1967 entreaty to José Donoso.
Nearly a million children could risk going hungry.
The move to offshore would-be asylees is a new low in the Trump administration’s war on immigrants.
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Column
Zealous coverage of political point scoring doesn’t help anyone outside Washington.
The 77-year-old billionaire was a terrible mayor of New York City who only exacerbated inequality.
Books & the Arts
A new history of North Atlantic democracies argues that they were already undergoing a serious crisis more than four decades ago.
A new biography reveals how the feminist, pacifist, labor activist, and socialist fused the best strains of American leftism into one.
As with Pilate, the fierce outsider and moral conscience of Song of Solomon , Morrison never asked for the proverbial seat at the table. Instead, she pulled the entire table over to her side of the room.
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Letters
Debating Biden… Andrew Yang’s fuzzy math…