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I'm not going to talk about basketball. Nothing's happened with our team in the last six hours. We're going to start the same way tonight. Any basketball questions don't matter.Since we left shootaround, 14 children were killed 400 miles from here. And a teacher. In the last 10 days, we've had elderly Black people killed ...continue reading "*No way to prevent this,* insists the political party that ensures that it keeps happening"

"Underlying everything else in this dispute is a single, simple question: Who decides how much protection, and of what kind, American workers need from Covid-19? An agency with expertise in workplace health and safety, acting as Congress and the president authorized? Or a court, lacking any knowledge of how to safeguard workplaces and insulated from ...continue reading "Supreme Court’s supermajority overrules the facts and the law to benefit the GOP"

On the Friday before Thanksgiving, the House finally passed the omnibus “Build Back Better” bill and sent it to the Senate, which can be expected to change it significantly before passing it (though approval is hardly a certainty). Jonathan Bernstein, noting further vindication of the Democrats’ two-bill strategy, observed, “It’s unlikely that either the most ...continue reading "Embracing the give and take of politics safeguards our American democracy"