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Oct 31

Yesterday, I sent you the latest edition of the Editorial Board. It was about the “very perilous” period after the midterms during which a highly unstable president is probably going to do his worst. And if that’s not scary enough, there’s Donald Trump’s escalation of war to consider, and the general collapse of the world order. “The bones of the republic are probably going to hold up, however precariously,” I said. “It’s the other stuff – war and chaos and a bubble that’s about the burst – that is driving me to distraction.”

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A sampling from the Editorial Board archives

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The Wall Street Journal and CBS News confirmed that Elon Musk was involved in the decision to stall out Starshield, the military version of Starlink, when Ukraine needed it most. As Russia launched its biggest attack since the invasion, Musk “capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based n…
10 days ago · 84 likes · 9 comments
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Some days feel like we’re all living in the pages of a novel set in the Gilded Age, a time when the merely rich transformed into the very obscenely rich while everyone else struggled…
16 days ago · 76 likes · 4 comments
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I’m late to this, but there’s still time for a word on James Talarico’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s show. It’s important, because I don’t think most people on the left appreciate how threatening he is. He has a shot at becoming the first Democrat elected to the US Senate from Texas in decades. He presents a chance to reclaim policies favorable to Donal…
18 days ago · 80 likes · 5 comments
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In American politics, the simplest explanation is probably the best. Why are some Republicans suddenly and conspicuously breaking from Donald Trump? Not just any Republicans, but ruby-red Republicans, in ruby-red states, in the span of days…
a month ago · 146 likes · 23 comments
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Yesterday, during an interview with Glenn Beck, the president made Dolly Parton’s death about him. (”She really liked me, I will tell you.”) That was no surprise. What was surprising, however, was what Donald Trump said right before that. “She wasn’t a very political person…
2 months ago · 5 likes · 4 comments

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