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July 2, 2022
1989-2001: America’s Long Lost Weekend
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. It was an opportunity to salve some festering national wounds. We squandered it completely—and helped give rise to the crises we’re dealing with today.
by Walter Shapiro
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In West Virginia v. EPA, the court extended a lifeline to the coal industry and questioned the administrative state itself. But it could have been even worse.
by Kate Aronoff
A survey of the world’s worst nuclear disasters highlights the catastrophic consequences of technical hubris.
by Audra J. Wolfe
Barack Obama won the state twice. Now Democrats are an endangered species there.
by Ben Jacobs
There are many policies that have forced asylum-seekers into horrifying conditions, like those that caused the deaths of 53 people in San Antonio.
by Felipe De La Hoz
From the Archives:
Myths may comfort us, but facts are our best weapon against Tea Party perversions
by Brook Wilensky-Lanford
 

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