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T he American left is a pretty cerebral lot: It contains a lot of grad students, underemployed humanities majors and hyperliterate autodidacts, and this educational glut is often grounds for criticism ...

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There’s an answer to the question of how we crawl out of the present-day polarized quicksand. It’s called fusion voting through minor parties, and its time has come.

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In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, Governor Gavin Newsom recalls how George W. Bush's 2004 State of the Union inadvertently sparked a revolution in California civil rights.

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