#Reagan

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Biden will probably win Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, but the TV trained us to believe politics are a TV show and the TV President was in the lead when the

Imagine your block without cars

Newyorkist

what we're seeing is GOP fracturing in real time. Like a snake molting, they are becoming a new far right party. Their is no room for their Regan republican, the

National Museum of American History

amhistorymuseum

The AIDS epidemic modernized the gay rights movement and propelled gay liberation by decimating and restructuring communities, creating solidarity, and necessitating out-of-the-box confrontations. When Americans began dying of AIDS, the

David Willis Total Landscaping

damnyouwillis

Sometimes I get a comic/story/dialogue idea in the middle of the night and so I jump out of bed and type it into a .txt file.I will share some:"Beginning: Robin

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Stop saying America is divided. It isn't by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/stop-saying-america-is-divided-it?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. The vote counting continues. The former v

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

For the people who think I only started to wrestle with this "experts in a democracy" problem just a few years ago, this is from a book review I wrote

PurpleSky11 🇺🇸

purple_sky11

I'm curious about something: is it customary for an incoming president to have a 21-gun salute? What about an out going president? I know Trump got the 21-guns at his

Robyn Pennacchia

RobynElyse

For so many years, practically since I've been alive, Democrats have thought that they could win the respect of Republicans by being polite and letting them have their way every

Rick Perlstein

rickperlstein

Pelosi's mot that the chose "their whiteness over democracy" disappoints me. 1/ It disturbs me when liberals recourse to racism as a universal explanation for everything bad the right does.

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

No, @EricTrump is not correct, and neither are you.Let me explain.https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/1104811015315881984 First of all, that particular JFK line you're invoking? It was used most famously in a speech he gave

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/My latest @bopinion post is about Biden's call for an immigrant amnesty -- a path to citizenship for the country's 11+ million undocumented immigrants.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/biden-s-amnesty-won-t-bri

Bryan Bennett

bryanbennett85

FWIW re: 1988, looking only at "strong" feelings about Dukakis, 34% had a very favorable (27%)/unfavorable (7%) opinion in July 1988 and 38% had strong feelings by Election Day 1988

CodesUcq

CodesUcq

1.Russia/USSR & Star Wars DecodeSo how did the USSR fall? (First topic of many)Let's start with Reagan's "Star Wars"https://twitter.com/CodesUcq/status/1341624076863819776 SDI was created to "protect the United St

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

You hear lots about how tech monopolies arose due to supposedly inevitable factors like "network effects," but you don't hear much about banal, sleazy tactics that were banned until the

Micah Schwartzman

mjschwartzman

Thanks to @PostEverything and @cshea4 for giving @proffontana and me some space to talk about judicial nominations. This piece includes some stats. More in this https://twitter.com/PostOpinions/status/1361749093580763137 Trump's judges

Matthew Chapman

fawfulfan

One reason I've never much liked the phrase "trickle-down economics" is that it's kind of a straw man.The GOP's argument was never literally that by cutting taxes for the rich,

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