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Democratic politics are bounded by what people allow themselves to imagine. Pundits often make this point by citing the Overton window: a concept developed in the 1990s by two libertarian Josephs, Overton and Lehman, to describe the realm of the thinkable for mainstream voters considering policies and platforms. But it sometimes happens that our civic imaginations expand and contract not in terms of policy choices (more or less regulation, spending here or cuts there) but at the level of language itself. Читать дальше...

For former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference has an outsize level of importance. That’s because the annual CPAC straw poll will almost certainly more closely pit the two would-be 2024 presidential candidates against each other—offering the most direct comparison yet of which Republican is favored by some of the most active Republicans in the party. 

A shocking report in Politico earlier this month warned of an impending doomsday scenario: Unless the disaster is somehow averted, more than 15 million people are at risk of getting booted off Medicaid coverage beginning in mid-April. That’s nearly a fifth of the program’s current enrollees.

In an August 6, 2020, speech to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, less than two weeks before being officially designated as his party’s presidential nominee, then-candidate Joe Biden said his administration would “restore our moral standing in the world and our historic role as a safe haven for refugees and asylum-seekers, and those fleeing violence and persecution.”

Since the pandemic began, everyone has longed to get back to normal. For parents, in particular, who faced long waits to get children over 5 vaccinated and whose hopes were recently crushed by the announcement that the under-5 vaccine would be delayed, there has been little reprieve. We worry about everything: How safe are their playdates and school days? Do face masks affect their development? Will they be the unlucky ones, the sobering footnotes in every story, who face severe illness or death? Читать дальше...

In a recent quest to avoid paraphrasing while writing an article about Donald Trump’s relationship with Big Tech, I went in search of a late 2020 tweet in which he promised to veto (seemingly out of spite) a national defense bill unless it terminated part of the Communications Decency Act. I knew a message had once existed, but instantly I came up short. Trump’s Twitter feed had vanished.