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May 2020

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May 30th
- What the SpaceX launch represents
- The inevitable long, hot summer
May 29th
- What happens when the police lose all legitimacy
- Don't bother having a baseball season
- The conservative case for the Democratic Party
- Living with uncertainty
- An economic turning point for Europe?
- The reality of the 'new cold war' with China
May 28th
- 1 important fact about the Minneapolis police department
- If Trump is a budding autocrat, shouldn't Democrats limit his surveillance powers?
- Trump on tilt
May 27th
- The right's 'rule of law' hypocrisy
- Is Trump going to cruise to re-election on a partial coronavirus recovery?
May 26th
- Trump says it's safe to reopen schools. I don't believe him.
- The coronavirus might cause inflation — and that's a good thing
May 25th
- How social conservatives traded causes for clichés
May 23rd
- There's always a bigger scandal
- A eulogy for 100,000 Americans
May 22nd
- The vital mystery of how we think about the world
- America's coronavirus death toll has been a bipartisan achievement
- The constitutional immune system kicks in
May 21st
- We should be grateful for good news in Georgia
- Is QAnon the newest American religion?
- Trump's lethal aversion to reading
- There's no good reason for Joe Kennedy to primary Ed Markey
May 20th
- Would Republicans welcome a Democratic authoritarian?
- The start-up economy is fundamentally broken. The virus will make it worse.
May 19th
- The president who can only live in the moment
- The wrong way to fight poverty
- The snake oil salesman cometh
May 18th
- 'Obamagate' and the end of scandal
- The ongoing assault on American democracy
- The tyranny of the Congressional Budget Office
May 16th
- It's almost time for pandemic apologies
May 15th
- Three cheers for the world's first trillionaire
- Jeff Bezos and the unreality of money
- Rebelling against sanity
- The next phase of America's coronavirus problem is a massive housing crisis
- The real value of the coronavirus protests
May 14th
- The reality of modern slavery
- The conservative victimhood complex has made America impossible to govern
May 13th
- Will the Supreme Court crown Trump king?
- When crisis powers become permanent
- Coronavirus has exposed all of America's ancient evils
- Which countries are the unsung coronavirus stars?
May 12th
- The great uncertainty
- 1 of these 7 women will likely be Joe Biden's running mate
- How Trump lost his Electoral College edge to Biden
May 11th
- Coronavirus is no reason to cut Social Security
- The making of a coronavirus conspiracy theory
May 10th
- The dark decade ahead
- Everyone deserves a Federal Reserve bailout
May 8th
- Unemployment is a catastrophe — but it could still be worse
- The full-spectrum failure of the Trump revolution
- Facebook's 'Supreme Court' won't solve anything
- The false prophets of growth
May 7th
- Did we just witness one of the nuttiest foreign policy blunders in American history?
- How the virus could weigh down America's economy for the long haul
- Ahmaud Arbery and the racist history of loitering laws
May 6th
- The menace of coronavirus snitches
- What a sane country would learn from coronavirus
- American individualism is a suicide pact
- Why even mask skeptics should want to wear them
May 5th
- The reality of American inflation
- Trump is pursuing a herd immunity strategy — whether intentionally or not
May 4th
- How George W. Bush exposed Trump's biggest failure
- Trump was the disaster we should have seen coming
- 5 questions about how coronavirus will affect the 2020 election
May 2nd
- The angst over Joe Biden's assault allegation has an easy resolution
- Shouldn't Congress be considered essential?
May 1st
- The nasty rhetorical trick of 'her truth'
- The self-inflicted derangement of the conservative intellectuals
- Republicans literally want to work Americans to death
- Do we need to blow up the economy to stop climate change?
- No, this won't be over soon

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