Backbencher
Further dark musings about whether the stock market is all that matters.
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Since the 1970s we've all been working longer, with people at the bottom giving up the most leisure time. Had postwar income distribution continued pas…
Timothy Noah
Sep 16
Granted, workers will get sick, and some will die. That's ... distasteful. But Donald Trump's OSHA doesn't intend to punish the companies responsible.
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Sep 11
Another Republican idea to limit the franchise.
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Sep 9
An inspirational, very possibly untrue story.
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Sep 4 1
The real political dynasties were the Bushes and the Clintons, and their standing has plummeted, along (thankfully) with the idea of political dynasty.
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Sep 3
A thought experiment, with apologies to Anne Hutchinson and Max Weber.
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Sep 3 3
Why a Democratic Senate majority would be insane to keep this "Jim Crow relic."
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Sep 1
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