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Talking Point archive

August 2021

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August 31st
- Biden stumbles in his victory lap
- Let the kids play video games
- Is rural America becoming a new Confederacy?
- The Afghanistan fiasco might get Biden impeached
- The war in Afghanistan is over. The foreign-policy debate is not.
August 30th
- Hurricane Ida, jazz, and how climate change destroys our history
- Hurricane Ida is a make-or-break moment for Biden
August 27th
- Biden chooses the wrong Bible verse
- The 1 time Republicans hate a cop standing his ground
- The dam breaks in Afghanistan
August 26th
- The Kabul bombings demonstrate the lie of a bloodless occupation
- Biden is testing the theory that voters don't care about foreign policy
August 25th
- 4 smart perspectives on Afghanistan
- A Trump vaccine counterfactual
August 24th
- The kind of COVID-19 herd immunity we can realistically expect
- Germany's surprising center-left resurgence
- The Afghanistan evacuation timeline is a negotiation, not a decision
August 23rd
- The problem with academic funding, in 1 ironic scandal
- America's 3 big 'what ifs' in Afghanistan
- Will a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan be a safe haven for terrorism?
August 20th
- The Jan. 6 'plot' that wasn't
- Reaganism is back
August 19th
- What Biden shares with Bush
- Facebook's VR conference room is the most boring possible future
- Biden's Afghanistan refugee dilemma
August 18th
- Republicans: Local control for me but not for thee
August 17th
- Conservatives should understand why Afghanistan collapsed so quickly
- Why Tucker Carlson's response to Afghanistan is reminiscent of post-World War I Germany
August 16th
- Biden fails to explain Kabul chaos
- Immigrants are keeping rural America alive
- The chaotic Afghanistan exit everyone should have seen coming
August 13th
- The child tax credit payments are already showing why they should be made permanent
- The neocons strike back?
August 12th
- The Orwell Foundation gives in to cancel culture
- Biden undermines his own climate goals
August 11th
- Biden better be ready for the political blowback from the coming chaos in Kabul
- Vaccination is not a personal choice
- Should the unvaccinated have to pay their own medical bills?
August 10th
- The Machiavellian reasoning behind the GOP's infrastructure bipartisanship
- Andrew Cuomo's rapid fall from grace
- Andrew Cuomo's resignation shows 1 party is still capable of shame
- Is Tucker Carlson the right's Jon Stewart?
- The census is about to set our politics on fire
August 9th
- Israel's Olympic hero can't get married, but that may soon change
- U.N. report makes the case for Democrats' climate spending — and more
- The pandemic home confinement experiment was a huge success
August 6th
- Apple tests how much privacy users are willing to give up
- The Marjorie Taylor Greene caucus goes to Liz Cheney's backyard
August 5th
- Jeopardy! can do better than Mike Richards
- The larger target of anti-critical race theory bills may be public education itself
- COVID catches up to Biden
August 4th
- The culture war goes global
- Republican governors are repeating Trump's COVID mistake
- Trump's little win in Ohio
- Biden's eviction moratorium is a microcosm of his presidency
August 3rd
- Andrew Cuomo's bizarre photo montage is a smokescreen
- Cuomo tests Democrats' #MeToo resolve
- Andrew Cuomo's fate should be sealed
- Biden's Iran miscalculation
- Tucker Carlson joins the right-wing pilgrimage to Budapest
August 2nd
- The big risk of the Democrats' infrastructure infighting
- The financial crisis crushed America's trust in elites. COVID-19 hypocrisy might just finish it off.
- You're paying Obama to party like a rockstar

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