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I can’t believe a woman gubernatorial candidate who was raped as a child by her stepfather and whose mother lost custody of her minor children as a result has to respond to an attack ad calling her a liar. It is, as far as the literature I know an actual unprecedented low in modern politics.

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There is a clear "revealed preference" to do less of basically everything and spend more time home alone going online, but I'm convinced a lot of the anger and misery in contemporary America is downstream of this rather than conventional economic problems. www.slowboring.com/p/americans-...

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Traveling in France and Germany this fall has provoked me to think about the different memory cultures nations have around fascism. This is a very funny take on that theme.

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Boomers spent their peak earning years demanding lower income taxes now spending retirement years demanding no property taxes — that puts a very large burden on the income-earning generation squeezed between their kids and declining parents.

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