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Some States Are Finally Getting Serious About Addressing Police Misconduct The nation has finally learned what it takes to remove a bad officer from a police force and provide some modicum of justice [1] in a police-abuse case. We need only capture on video an officer slowly snuffing out a man’s life, have that video go viral, endure some of the most far-reaching protests and riots in modern history and, then, after nearly a year of soul-searching and debate, wait for a jury to render a verdict. Polls [2] suggest that most Americans are relieved that the jury found former Minneapolis pol...

With all of the chatter about the Georgia vote suppression law passed by the Republican legislature making it a crime to give someone water who is standing in line to vote, a very scary and far more dangerous provision hasn’t gotten much notice.  The Democratic Strategist included a warning for Democrats in the newsletter this week: Dozens of voter suppression bills with hundreds of specific provisions that have been introduced in states across the country make it difficult for defenders of democracy and voting rights to decide which issues they need to prioritize. Learning from the experi...

The anatomy of the GOP scheme to win back power.

How Never Trumpers Are Becoming Pro-Democracy Republicans Photo: Jon Cherry/Getty Images One of the most predictable developments of the post-Trump era was that the small band of anti-Trump conservative intellectuals and Republican officials would quickly melt away. They had been repulsed by Donald Trump’s combination of grotesque character and ideological heterodoxy — opposing American alliances, free trade, and so on – but when given the chance to support Republicans who believed in traditional Reaganite principles and weren’t career criminals, politics would go back...

Having a fifth child makes no sense. We already have two boys and two girls. Their bedrooms are easily sectioned. Our minivan is too small for yet another car seat and, if we’re being honest, the car won’t easily sell (you just can’t scrub five years worth of mashed Larabars out of carpet). When my husband Seth and I started dating, we talked about our future family. And today, it’s exactly how we wanted it. Even. Symmetrical. Which is why my existential crisis is so strange. I look at my four kids, and by golly, I like them. It makes me want more. Watching each personality emerge i...