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Daylight Saving Time
April 6, 2022
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Unlikely Success of Permanent Daylight Saving Time
Even a broken Senate is right twice a day.
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March 18, 2022
Matt Ford
The Big Winner in the Daylight Saving Time Debate: Cars
All this shouting about clocks is actually another pitched battle over the primacy of automobiles in our politics.
November 2, 2021
Timothy Noah
How Daylight Saving Time Screws Up Voter Turnout
When Congress delayed the standard time switch to the first Sunday in November, some voters got too cranky to go to the polls.
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