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February 8, 2021
 
Trump’s Final Defense of His Presidency May Be His Most Deranged
 

He’s misreading the Constitution and claiming to be the real victim of the Capitol riots.

By Matt Ford

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The Alabama Town That Could Defeat Jeff Bezos The Amazon billionaire is trying to crush a unionization effort at a warehouse in Bessemer. But David and Goliath fights are in the town’s DNA.
By Alex Press
 
 
Can There Ever Be a Working-Class Republican Party? The party of the country club tries to embrace a new egalitarian economic agenda.
By Christopher Caldwell
 
 
Democrats Are Screwing Up Trump’s Impeachment Trial They have one final chance to prove his guilt in inciting the Capitol riot—and they’re squandering it.
By Walter Shapiro

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Tesla’s Bitcoin Buy Is a Reckless, Destructive Troll Elon Musk’s car company quietly bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin while he hyped the digital currency on Twitter.
By Jacob Silverman
 
 
George Shultz, the Godfather of the Discredited Laffer Curve The late secretary of state helped bring an economic monster to Washington.
By Bruce Bartlett
 
 
The Colorado River Crisis Is a National Crisis Colorado River drought and water supply issues could soon affect 12 percent of Americans.
By Nick Martin

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