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the decade from hell
January 1, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Rise of the Permanent Protest
There's cause for hope, here at the end of the Decade From Hell: a new breed of hell-raiser.
December 31, 2019
Jason Linkins
The Death of the Good Internet Was an Inside Job
A decade of squandered potential can be laid at the feet of those you trusted to create a democratic online world.
December 30, 2019
Matt Ford
A Decade of Legal Warfare Has Warped America’s Future
If all our political disputes are destined to be settled by unelected judges, do the people even have a place in our democracy?
December 30, 2019
Matt Farwell
My Own Private Decade From Hell
A brother's death. An honorable discharge. And a harrowing reentry to civilian life.
December 27, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Daily Show
’s Rally to Restore Sanity Predicted a Decade of Liberal Futility
The pathologies that have plagued the left were all on display one October day in 2010.
December 25, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
How the Democratic Party Learned to Wage Class Warfare
Occupy Wall Street was widely ridiculed by liberals. Now, rage against the one percent is a major theme of the 2020 primary.
December 24, 2019
Nick Martin
The Decade When Republicans Stole the States
How the North Carolina GOP's anti-democratic chicanery became the national party's playbook for electoral theft
December 23, 2019
Ganesh Sitaraman
The Collapse of Neoliberalism
The long-dominant ideology brought us forever wars, the Great Recession, and extreme inequality. Good riddance.
December 23, 2019
Libby Watson
The Hell That Was Health Care Reform
Obamacare failed to achieve its goals but laid the groundwork for a truly revolutionary policy.
December 20, 2019
Alex Pareene
A Decade of Liberal Delusion and Failure
It was the death of hope by a thousand tiny technocratic "nudges."
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