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Tuesday
August 10, 2021
Biden Gets His Bipartisan Victory. Now the Hard Part.
The Democrats somehow convinced enough Republican senators to support a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Now they have to go to war to pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.
by Alex Shephard
 
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Panic over California's pork reform exposes everything wrong with the meat industry.
by Jan Dutkiewicz
 
Earlier this year, the press deemed the Florida governor a political “winner” of the pandemic. Now his state is a Covid epicenter.
by Alex Shephard
 
By shedding the detritus of race-based nationalism, today’s insurgents have harnessed the power of white innocence.
by Joe Lowndes
 

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Warehouse workers in Bessemer may get a union do-over, the Teamsters have the commerce behemoth in their sights, and antitrust momentum may be growing in Biden’s administration. What now?
by Jacob Silverman
 
We know why they were built and why they have to come down.
by Eric Herschthal
 
The party is rightly worried about polls showing Republican gains. The solution is to stop talking about doing things and start actually doing them.
by Jason Linkins
 
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