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December 8, 2016
Rest assured: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg says fake news didn’t sway the election.
December 8, 2016
If Donald Trump keeps being a bully on Twitter, someone’s going to get hurt.
December 8, 2016
The Year Silicon Valley Went Morally Bankrupt
Tech moguls want to remake the world, but in 2016 they behaved as if they owe us no explanation for their decisions.
December 8, 2016
How Democrats Must Fight the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions
The Trump administration-in-waiting will try to paint Sessions as a civil rights advocate. Nothing could be further from the truth.
December 7, 2016
Joe Biden is the only person enjoying Trump’s transition.
December 7, 2016
Trump Is Already Implementing an Autocratic Foreign Policy
His Taiwan call and other moves signal a shift from multilateral alliances to bilateral dealmaking. And it could destabilize the world.
December 7, 2016
Know who else was Time’s Person of the Year?
December 7, 2016
Donald Trump saved Christmas!
December 7, 2016
Is Ohio about to ban abortion?
December 7, 2016
Donald Trump has already neutered the deficit hawks in the GOP.
December 7, 2016
The report that the Pope condemned fake news as a sin is itself a kind of fake news.
December 7, 2016
Thomas Piketty’s latest opus paints a grim picture of income inequality in America.
December 7, 2016
Donald Trump is Time’s Man of the Year and he’s still complaining.
December 7, 2016
Sorry, Conservatives, Trump’s Illiberalism Is on You.
Anti-Trumpers are trying to argue that Obama laid the foundation for authoritarianism.
December 7, 2016
Can the Constitution Survive Donald Trump?
Trump's proposals during the campaign were notable for flouting basic legal principles that have guided the republic for years.
December 7, 2016
Forever Trump: How the GOP Capitulated to a Monster
Most of Trump's fiercest foes in the Republican Party have backed down, giving Trump full rein to remake the party in his image.
December 6, 2016
The press has to stop echoing Trump’s talking points without checking them.
December 6, 2016
Chris Christie is America’s least popular governor in two decades.
December 6, 2016
Democrats, Don’t Repeat Obama’s Biggest Mistake
To save Obamacare from Republicans, the opposition party must heed the lesson of 2011's debt limit standoff.
December 6, 2016
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Trump’s Political Lesson: Humiliate, or Be Humiliated
Humiliation was the driving force of a presidential election in which the rules of decorum were laid to waste.

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