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Lincoln didn’t possess the most radical outlook as a candidate or president, but what set him apart and served the country well was his strategic depth, his capacity to change his views in the face of new experience and sober…
Climate science, not to mention the need to set the economy on a self sustaining and equitable trajectory, should tell us that a Green New Deal is long overdue. Its realization, in its robust version, will take something similar to…
Finally reading “At Canaan’s Edge,” the last volume of Taylor Branch’s history of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. In his extraordinary telling, MLK is somehow able to navigate waters in which he is simultaneously pressured to go…
The only good thing about Trump’s State of the Union is that its shelf life will be short. Larger political realities will take center stage — the shutdown, the border wall, a probable declaration of a national emergency, congressional investigations,…
1. Trump, it appears, will declare a national emergency and order the building of a wall along the southwestern border. This is dangerous, undemocratic, and authoritarian on its face. It rests on pure invention. There is no border crisis. If there…