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August 2017

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August 31st
- Trump's narcissism is poisoning America
- The progressives who cried bigotry
- Why Harvey wasn't politicized
- Trump's heroic plan to rescue downtrodden billionaires
- Harvey is just the beginning. America must get ready.
August 30th
- Who won't Trump pardon?
- Presidents really should tour disaster sites. They should also not speak like Trump.
- Trump shouldn't tour a disaster site. No president should.
- Why Trump's aides are so openly trashing him
- Trump is toxically unpopular. He still might win in 2020.
August 29th
- The perverse incentives of the National Flood Insurance Program
- How Harvey exposes America's dangerously dilapidated infrastructure
- Why less is sometimes more when it comes to immigration
- The lost cause of the Never Trump Republicans
- Trump's foolish fixation on torching the Iran deal
- Don't militarize America's police
- Kids need smartphones. Get over it.
- Will D.C. botch the Harvey response with its usual nonsense?
August 28th
- Trump's pernicious grift
- Hurricane Harvey is America's climate future
- Why I miss antenna TV
- The grand delusions of Kasich-Hickenlooper 2020
- Our fear of killer robots might doom us all
August 26th
- The disturbing lessons of Trump's shameful Arpaio pardon
August 25th
- Things are going to get much, much worse
- Why Trump is shrewdly calling the GOP Congress' bluff on the wall
- Democrats' unexpected money problem
- Trump has picked the dumbest political fight ever
- What pardoning Arpaio would mean to the worst people in government
- A lesson from the eclipse
August 24th
- Congress' looming gauntlet
- Trump's Fed chair dilemma
- Will the GOP destroy the 401(k)?
- The great digital media culling of 2017
- Trump's losing war against reality
- Be quiet, everyone
August 23rd
- Trump's Arizona ego trip
- Trump is the wrong man for the right job
- The GOP went all in on Trump. How's that going for them?
- The end of the hostile populist takeover of the GOP
- Time to cut and run in Afghanistan
August 22nd
- Game of Thrones has become a terrible show
- Making progress on race doesn't mean we've solved racism
- Why Trump's Afghanistan plan will end in utter failure
- The fantasy of Silicon Valley
- Washington wants endless war. Trump just gave it to them.
- The deep roots of American racism
- Corporate America isn't woke
- Who still believes that Trump will build a big, beautiful wall and that Mexico will pay for it?
August 21st
- Bannon was meant for another age
- American voters are politically flexible. Why aren't our parties?
August 18th
- Bannon's departure will change nothing
- How America forgot the true history of the Civil War
- Shrink the presidency to fit Trump's smallness
- The upside of Trump's moral abdication
- The folly of Bannon's IP crusade
August 17th
- Trump's loathsome embrace of the Confederacy
- Could the 25th Amendment really remove Trump from office?
- Conservatives turn on Silicon Valley — and the free market
- The troubling origins of Trump's 'alt-left' smear
- How can Trump be so stupid?
- Does America have an income inequality problem or an opportunity problem?
- Why Charlottesville is a turning point
- America's late-night hosts can't get past Trump's revealing Charlottesville press conference
August 16th
- Trump's defense of white supremacists is really a defense of himself
- Censor white supremacy
- Trump is emboldening racists. This will end disastrously.
- How the American bus system broke down
- When will centrist Democrats account for their foreign policy failures?
August 15th
- Why Trump went feral again
- When the police really should use overwhelming force
- Trump's trade posturing against China is very confused
- National Lampoon's presidential vacation
- Trump's familiar cycle of hate
- The extraordinary life of Ruth Pfau
- America's late-night hosts are uniformly disappointed with Trump's Charlottesville abdication
August 14th
- Don't praise the GOP for calling out Trump's appalling Charlottesville comments
- The lessons of the Russian revolution, 100 years later
- There is no justification for a pre-emptive strike on North Korea
- The Eagles are one of the coolest bands ever
- Trump's recklessness is Republican orthodoxy
August 13th
- Charlottesville is Trump's worst failure
August 11th
- How to solve the Wells Fargo problem
- Life after identity politics
- Trump has completely misplayed his hand against North Korea
- Kirsten Gillibrand is serious about Medicare for all
- The dilemma of the Google memo
- The problem with the restaurant boom
- When winning isn't possible
August 10th
- Paul Ryan is about to bang right into the debt ceiling
- This is not Trump's economy
- Wealth inequality is even worse than income inequality
- If the opioid crisis isn't a national emergency, nothing is
August 9th
- President Trump, please shut up about North Korea
- Trump has no clue what to do about North Korea — and he doesn't really care
- The basic assumption of tax reform is wrong
- Google and the case for messy, maddening workplace democracy
- Before Republicans can pass tax reform, they need to decide what tax reform means
- The Democrats' foolish family feud
- Republicans may have already bungled tax reform
August 8th
- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes. Full stop.
- Don't fear a bubble. Fear the status quo.
- Inside the biggest gathering of American socialists in decades
- How ending the draft corroded American politics
August 7th
- The last of the antiwar Republicans
- Let's talk about who leftists distrust — and why
- America's failure in Afghanistan is going to be worse than Vietnam
- The Russia investigation will probably not end well
August 4th
- Want to be happier? Live in a small house.
- The debt ceiling is madness
- How single men and women are making politics more extreme
- HBO's Confederate and the creative bankruptcy of prestige TV
- The left's immigration problem
August 3rd
- America's imminent productivity boom
- What the stock market surge is hiding
- Why are so many Americans okay with corporations bowing to Chinese censorship?
- It's white nationalism week in the Trump administration
- Why leftists don't trust Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Deval Patrick
August 2nd
- Why Trump will win on taxes
- Sean Spicer, do not take your job back
- Republicans want to cut the wrong taxes
- Trump has lost his gift for propaganda
August 1st
- Republicans are starting to flee Trump's carnival of crazy
- Russia and America's new era of lunatic brinksmanship
- Trump's approval rating is historically low. It's also terrifyingly high.
- TrumpCare is only mostly dead
- If Putin bet on Trump, he bet wrong
- Why not fire everyone?

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