Plus, Biden's foreign policy is stuck in the 1990s, and more...

 
Friday
June 4, 2021
Republicans Are Accidentally Suppressing Their Own Voters
Donald Trump’s weird obsession with mail-in voting is doing collateral damage to GOP lawmakers’ illiberal designs.
by Timothy Noah
 

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The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.
by Jacob Silverman
 
“The Bomber Mafia” enthuses about precision tactics said to spare civilian lives. Except they didn’t.
by Colin Dickey
 

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The president’s domestic agenda is surprisingly ambitious and progressive. So why is he proposing conventional, outdated solutions to the world’s crises?
by Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana
 
Gates was a lovable nerd who was out to save the world. Now, he’s a tech supervillain who wants to protect profits over public health.
by Alex Shephard
 
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Like a lot of rich-people hobbies, bringing back really fast planes is dumb and helps wreck the planet.
by Kate Aronoff
 
Our death-dealing institutions are no less lethal, but Republicans are just that desperate for another front in the culture war.
by Jacob Silverman
 

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