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February 12, 2021
Alex Pareene
Fire Louis DeJoy
It wouldn’t be simple for Joe Biden to oust the postmaster general, but it’s hardly as impossible as the press is making it out to be.
August 18, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The World’s Dumbest Authoritarian
Most dictators rig elections to win. With his Postal Service gambit, Trump merely wants everybody to lose with him.
August 17, 2020
Alex Shephard
Why the Media Is Uniquely Terrible at Covering the U.S. Postal Service
By embracing conservative talking points, the press missed the hollowing-out of one of America’s great institutions.
August 6, 2020
Casey Taylor
Death by a Thousand Cuts for One of America’s Last Great Institutions
Mail carriers tell the story of how the destruction of the U.S. Postal Service would mean the end of a connected country.
June 24, 2014
Danny Vinik
Congress Is Weighing Some Bafflingly Bad Ideas for Fixing Our Crumbling Bridges and Roads
April 19, 1919
William Hard
Mr. Burleson, Junker in Vain
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