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Stories Democracy is a threat to white supremacy—and that is the cause of America’s crisis 7 January 2021 Darren Walker , President, Ford Foundation I have long believed that inequality is the greates
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T he people who were attracted to Donald Trump in 2016 have become alienated from President Trump in 2020. White women, seniors, and suburbanites are abandoning him in droves. The other swing voters —
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news analysis Why Democrats Are Still Not the Party of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez In contests for party control between progressives and moderates, electoral and governing results speak for themselves.
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America has botched its coronavirus response in so, so many ways since the pandemic began. Even in a country that stands apart from the world for its horrific failures, there have been as many leaders
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