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Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Washington has been steadily hardening -- more bollards, more barriers, more guards, new roads cut off, less access.That will surely escalate even more
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The federal government has “exclusive jurisdiction” over the District – and D.C. has no representation – because the founders feared a repeat of a 1783 demonstration when soldiers seeking back
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Some states are lately reporting better than expected budget outlooks. Why?States with more progressive tax structures have fared better in a recession that has left the wealthy largely unscathed. w/
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The president and Republicans have heavily focused their claims of election fraud on Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee.But those cities did not cost Trump the election. Voters *outside* of them did.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/upsho
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Nixon was successful fanning white suburban fears. Many reasons Trump likely won’t be:The suburbs are more diverse.Cities are safer.Threats to suburban exclusion are weaker.Trump just doesn’t know how to be
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And a technical note on this piece:@Nate_Cohn and I spent a lot of time trying to settle on how to define "the suburbs" to cut the Times/Siena polling data. And
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I've been revisiting a lot of history about 1960s urban unrest — and kept coming back to the thought that some of those scarred neighborhoods are the sites today of
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The rich have cut spending more than everyone else in the coronavirus recession. And their spending has crept back much slower.That’s bad for all of the lower-wage workers – servers,
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