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The Deion Sanders Enterprise

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The Foundation of Today's Democratic Party

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Joe Biden's "Ray Patterson" Problem

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We Have Officially Entered the Upside Down

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The Political Center of Gravity

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Poll Pollution

Should "Life Imprisonment" Mean "Life?"

Where Dems Need to Do Better

Is Pot Good Politics?

The Best Coming of Age Show Ever

Let's Address the Elephant in the Room

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The End of Affirmative Action

How Accurate are Political Ideology Tests?

Yes, Men's Athletics Are Objectively More Physical than Women's

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The Perverse Economics of Stadium Funding

The Sad Power of False Narratives

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The Immigrant Experience

Hello? Is there Anybody In There?

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Siloed Symbols

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The Cowardice of Deplatforming

The Brewing Border Debacle

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The Kamala Conundrum

TIMEOUT!!! Y'all Need to CHILL!!!

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April 19, A Date of Infamy

Aspirational Politics

The Quiet President

A Proposal to Fix Gun Violence

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Trading Progress for Spectacle

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Is MAGA Really A Cult?

Don't F**k with Disney

Our Endorsement for WI Supreme Court

Tragedy in America (Again)

The Rainbow Connection

A Harbor in the Campus Free Speech Tempest

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It's Not You, It's Us

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Equality v. Equity

The Fall of Project Veritas

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Where Do NeverTrumpers Go?

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The Coming Revolution

Toxic Activism

The Debt Ceiling Game

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The Choice for Best Picture

The Pronoun Problem

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A Tax on People Bad at Math

A Royal Pain

The GOP Votes to Defund White Collar Police

What MTG Got Right

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