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December 12, 2020

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The Rabid Illiberalism of Trump’s Desperate Election Deniers”

The president’s raggedy gang of dead-enders are still pressing for the election to be overturned in increasingly extravagant ways.

By Matt Ford

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	The Democrats Are Too Old A grim report about Dianne Feinstein’s cognitive decline underlines a larger problem with the leadership of the party.By Alex Shephard

	Elon Musk’s Big Government Grift The Tesla mogul says he wants to be left alone. But he’s been living off the taxpayer’s dime for years.By Jacob Silverman

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	Biden Is Finding New and Inexplicable Ways to Screw Up His Cabinet Picks” Who says the president-elect isn’t a political innovator? By Matt Ford

	The End of the Businessman PresidentWith any luck, Donald Trump’s catastrophic tenure will be the nail in the coffin of the worst idea in politics: that the government can be run like a corporation. By Kyle Edward Williams

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	Congress’s Bipartisanship Fetish Is Killing the Covid Relief Effort A theater of compromise on Capitol Hill is sabotaging the hopes of saving ordinary Americans from the pandemic’s economic ravages.By Osita Nwanevu

	Wall Street Vultures Are Ready to Get Rich From Water Scarcity The basis of all human life is now officially on the market. Call it the No Future futures index.By Nick Martin

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