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August 2019

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August 31st
- The daily horrors of the jailhouse birth
August 30th
- Why Brexit destroyed Parliament
August 29th
- Did Kirsten Gillibrand just pay the price for the sins of Al Franken?
- Would a Democratic president really be better for the economy than a second Trump term?
- America's own rainforest tragedy
- The mistake both sides are already making in the 2020 election
- Joe Walsh and the secret doubts of Trump supporters
- Donald Trump, humble servant
August 28th
- The eternal return of the Trump presidency
- Trump has taken the GOP's 'Kansas experiment' national — with predictable results
August 27th
- The mask is off at the Federal Reserve
- The Venezuelan baseball ban is a microcosm of Trump's foolish foreign policy
- Why Trump's trade war is becoming eerily similar to Bush's Iraq War
- Donald Trump is picking your pocket
- Cory Booker is the only Democrat with a data-driven electability argument
August 26th
- Joe Walsh bets the GOP is ready to ditch Trump but keep Trumpism
- Donald Trump is a bad friend
August 24th
- Sean Spicer's Hollywood rehabilitation
August 23rd
- David Koch's misunderstood legacy
- The terrifying legacy of David Koch
- Who is really working the refs?
- Trump is about to lose his first war. Will he admit it?
- Is greed no longer good?
August 22nd
- The astounding, unrelenting foolishness of President Trump
- The false prophet in the White House
- The Republican Party is never going back
- Bernie Sanders' plan to rebuild labor unions would be a huge win for working Americans
August 21st
- The Democrats' calls for impeachment are going nowhere slowly
- The Trump administration is drifting right into the icebergs
- How the police protect themselves from prosecution
- The problem with Facebook has never been bias
- America's new CEOs are telling the wrong story about capitalism
August 20th
- The New York Times surrenders to the left on race
- The unjust power of police unions
- How corporate zillionaires could prove Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren wrong
- Jay-Z's cardboard corporate activism
August 19th
- The Afghanistan paradox
- American cities need to phase out cars
- Why Democrats shouldn't be afraid to talk about socialism
- Trump's trade war socialism
August 16th
- Why America should absolutely buy Greenland
- Joe Biden, own your age
- What the next Democratic president should learn from the Trumpocalypse
- Modi's devastating distraction in Kashmir
August 15th
- The Democrats need a recession plan
- A Gen Xer reckons with Woodstock ... again
- The problem with Succession's half-baked class politics
- Donald Trump's moment of crisis
- China will do whatever it wants in Hong Kong
August 14th
- 2020 Democrats' shallow media criticism
- How a Trump recession could cement Biden's 2020 victory
- Bernie Sanders can beat Trump
- Want to influence Trump's foreign policy? Just reply to his tweets.
- Everyone will eventually turn on Trump. Even Steve Doocy.
August 13th
- The world is too stupid for your conspiracy theories
- Trump just showed his hand in the trade war
- Why politics is the shallowest way to interpret the Supreme Court
- Trump wants to make immigration white again
- What will it take for the Democratic establishment to abandon Biden?
August 12th
- Jeffrey Epstein broke America
- Why are we all paying a tax to credit card companies?
- The church is not the GOP farm team
August 11th
- Don't expect me to be 'grateful'
- Why do evangelicals oppose gun control?
August 10th
- Why gun control might backfire on the Democrats
August 9th
- Blaming evil
- Did DNC's lax debate rules let Republicans hijack the primary?
- You shouldn't have to carry papers in America
- Let's have open borders for people and closed borders for capital
- How climate change could fuel the far right
August 8th
- Death by deportation
- It's time to redesign the accessibility logo
- The sad decline of journalism
- The rise of anti-pluralism is the challenge of our time
- The farming out of state violence
August 7th
- Incoherent in Iowa
- Shooting false alarms are the way we live now
- Is Donald Trump the smartest Republican?
- Boris Johnson has Britain barreling toward a disastrous no-deal Brexit
- The crisis of American loneliness
- Sean Hannity's very bad plan for keeping America safe
August 6th
- The El Paso shooter's manifesto contains a dangerous message about climate change
- Misogyny and murder often go hand-in-hand
- The electoral path to gun reform
- Mass shootings are about alienation, not ideology
August 5th
- The white nationalist plot to destroy America
- What will happen to doctors and hospitals under Medicare-for-all? It's complicated.
- The value of Marianne Williamson
- Should liberals get behind rent control?
- Republicans don't hate cities, they only talk like they do
- Enabler-in-chief?
August 4th
- The right's intellectual destitution
- The Second Amendment has failed America
August 3rd
- Marianne Williamson, reparations, and the limits of campaign poetry
August 2nd
- Tulsi Gabbard is no peacenik
- The historic debate moment nobody is acknowledging
- Are Democrats running against the wrong president?
- The old Democratic trade paradigm is collapsing. Good riddance.
- Trump the optimist?
- To those about to drop out of the Democratic primary, we salute you
August 1st
- Biden and Harris need a reckoning, not rebranding, on criminal justice
- Biden is collapsing, and so is the Obama-era consensus
- Democrats should ditch cable news
- Jay Inslee just wants to save the world from climate change
- How Joe Biden won the second night of the Detroit debate
- Primaries are for fighting

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