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Sanders, Clinton, and the Democrats’ Dilemma by Rick Perlstein Do Democrats even care about big ideas anymore?

The Supreme Court Nomination and the Politics of Checks and Balances by Marc Stein Teaser

The cowardly bully would flunk eighth-grade civics by George Will Trump, the thin-skinned tough guy, resembles a campus crybaby who has wandered out of his “safe space.”

Don’t be fooled: Lindsey Graham & GOP Establishment just as Crazy as Trump by Juan Cole Graham and many other members of the Republican Establishment are blind to the ways in which the Trump stances they call crazy are mostly simply explicit statements of what they say with dog-whistles.

Trump, Berlusconi, Hitler and the Populist Moment by Robert Kuttner Trump's no Hitler, but there's a striking parallel nonetheless.

The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good by David Rieff Why we are wrong to believe we should remember the past.

Temps, Consultants, and the Rise of the Precarious Economy by Louis Hyman Today, scholars and critics are all abuzz about “precarious” work. Instead of a job for life with General Motors or AT&T, we now have many jobs either in sequence or, increasingly, all at once.

The Myth of the Barter Economy by Ilana E. Strauss Adam Smith said that quid-pro-quo exchange systems preceded economies based on currency, but there’s no evidence that he was right.

How Biden killed John Roberts’s nomination in 1992 by Marc Thiessen What Republicans are doing today is far from unprecedented. To the contrary, it is the norm.