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Money Misses the Mark in Maryland

2 years ago
Despite spending $62 million of his own fortune on the Democratic Senate primary, Rep. David Trone lost last night to county executive Angela Alsobrooks.
Luke Goldstein

Can We All Get Along?

2 years ago
A Q&A with Eman Abdelhadi, a Palestinian University of Chicago professor, about encampments, dialogue, and mutual respect
Rick Perlstein

Is Denis McDonough a Slow Reader?

2 years ago
The VA secretary’s professed ignorance about a report he commissioned describing an ‘existential threat’ to his agency is alarming.
Suzanne Gordon

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Entirely Wrong

2 years ago
FTX’s victims are getting up to 143 percent of their money back, because the system treated it like the fraud it was. As the Steward case shows, that’s not usually how bankruptcy works.
Maureen Tkacik

Unclear Lines

2 years ago
An energy regulatory decision today could carve out the path for fully renewable energy in America, by attacking the central challenge of transmission capacity.
David Dayen