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Thursday
June 3, 2021
Biden’s Shameful, Conservative Stance Against Legal Pot in D.C.
His outdated view of marijuana legalization is blinding him to the will of the District’s voters.
by Matt Ford
 

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Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others are uniting behind a new resolution backing public electric power.
by Kate Aronoff
 
The Trump era’s most infamous metaphor takes on a new meaning as “bipartisan” negotiations drag on.
by Alex Shephard
 
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The Senate parliamentarian normally flies under the radar, but she now holds the Democrats’ ambitious plans in her hands.
by Alex Thomas
 

How safe spaces for transgressive humor, both online and in real life, helped breed a hateful ideology

by Seth Simons
 

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