Growing up, my grandma would always read Angell’s New Yorker poem to us during the holidays.We’d sit around and talk about the people we’d heard of and then try to figure out the rest (not so easy, pre-internet).My grandparents usually knew everyone-they lived in Idaho, but read everything.Memories!

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The combination of two extra-constitutional doctrines---1) the president has complete power to personally order prosecutions (unitary executive) and 2) the president himself is completely immune from prosecution ever for violating the law (executive immunity)---is a recipe for dictatorship.

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Probably not. Most pollsters weight to a prior election. What is markedly different about this election is the high early voting turnout among communities of color. I've written extensively about this. This will likely be the most diverse electorate for a midterm election in U.S. history

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"Gelman blogged about your paper" has more a bowel loosening effect on scientists than a head turning effect on journalists

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Part of that is actually delivering results for folks. Successfully reverting to the previous status quo is not enough.

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