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The Race for Second Place

The Republican primaries as farce

You Say You Want a Revolution

by Kevin Baker,

Morality is often reduced to choices, and imperfect choices at that. This is the human condition; to accept it and do the best we can is a brave thing, and…

The Art of Losing

by James Pogue,

Can Democrats win back postindustrial America?

The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

by Thomas Frank,

And its eternal war on reform

On Courage

by Kevin Baker,

As of this writing, we are still about three months away from the first vote of the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination—and already “our side” seems set to tear…

I Contain Platitudes

by Joseph R. Biden,

From statements made by Joe Biden, current presidential candidate and former vice president, since he first ran for office in 1969.

No Joe!

by Andrew Cockburn,

Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy

The Real Jimmy Carter

by Steven Brill,

At 4:30 in the afternoon in the Admiral Benbow Inn in Jackson, Mississippi, Jimmy Carter sits opposite a dozen seventeen-year-olds, asking them to help him become president. “I grow peanuts…

The Improbability Party

by Walter Kirn,

I like to think I’m unique. Don’t you? Complicated. Surprising. Unpredictable. I like to think that people who’ve only just met me or who know only the basic facts about…

Trump’s People

by Paul Wood,

Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa

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