A new book says polarization breeds impunity. But America’s worst injustices emerged when the parties got along too well.
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What’s Wrong with The American Revolution by Ken Burns
The acclaimed filmmaker’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the political history of the Revolution remains strangely understated.
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Government Is, in Fact, Broken
It’s slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. A former senior Biden official offers a progressive blueprint to fix it.
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Trump’s Education Tax Credit Gambit
Subsidies for Scholarship Granting Organizations, the latest rage on the right, are being sold as a brilliant innovation to help underprivileged kids. Don’t fall for it.
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A New Path for a Free Palestine
Israel isn’t going to disappear and calling for its liquidation spurs antisemitism. There’s a better way.
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Trump Is Trying to Control the Corporate Media. Here’s How You Can Stop Him
The president wants to pick CNN’s owners and decide what CBS News airs. Tax-deductible donations to Washington Monthly keep independent media alive.
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Trump’s Pardon Power Abuses
The president has wide latitude to grant clemency, but Trump has broken all norms and sought even more authority to help his allies.
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