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Paul Ryan Is Choking On His Own Mystery Meat

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Booker calls on antitrust regulators to start paying attention to workers

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Lost Cause

Lee wasn't the only Southerner—or the only Virginian—forced to choose between "his state" and "his country." Facing war, George Henry Thomas, one of Lee's subordinates, had to make the same choice. He chose Union. As did David Farragut, a native of Tennessee. As did Winfield Scott, another Virginian. The United States of 1860 was a different place, and Americans understood their relationship to the country in different ways. But in showing us other men in similar straits who took the opposite path, history doesn't exonerate Lee; it condemns him.

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Trump, “Heritage,” And The G.O.P.’S White Identity Crisis

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Blurred Line

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Incomes determine house prices : An illustration for San Francisco

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The question that matters now: what will Republicans do when Trump fires Mueller?

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John Boehner Unchained

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House Freedom Caucus Proves It’s a Deficit Scam

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Yellen should stay at the Fed whether Trump wants her to or not

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How to Read the JFK Assassination Files

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The Recruitables: Why Trump’s Team Was Easy Prey for Putin

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Some Misleading Geometry on Corporate Taxes (Wonkish)

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No Bush, No Trump

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Trump’s refusal to take responsibility is a deep moral failure

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Impeachment Was Designed for Someone Like Trump

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The Worst Defense

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Subsidies, Spite, and Supply Chains

Paul Krugman