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Wiretap: Election Day

But first, read this Ezra Klein's essay in Vox may be the most interesting story you read on Election Day. Klein explains how Trump uncovered...

Littwin: Does Trump have a plan to defeat democracy?

I know that it's way, way, way too late to try to do any serious deconstruction of a Donald Trump performance, but, like Trump...

Wiretap: Infinite sadness from Gaza

  The story in Gaza keeps getting sadder by the day. A school where the United Nations was sheltering 3,300 people was rocked three times...

Wiretap: Jeb Bush’s next-generation compassionate conservativism

"They crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love."

Wiretap: Unemployment benefits end for a million Americans

And another 72,000 will lose benefits every month. At no time in the last 65 years have so many workers been without either a job or a government lifeline.

Wiretap: Keeping your lousy health insurance

So now there's a new promise. If your lousy health insurance was canceled, you can now buy even lousier insurance. If you want to. And you don't have to pay the individual mandate.

Wiretap: Explaining the Big Fail; trolling conservatives works

A short guide to Washington dysfunction, because no one reads long anymore, and the long guide would be really, really long.

GOP gamble? Failed unemployment bill means more unemployment

The failure of the unemployment extension bill, which also included additional federal funding for Medicaid and many more important provisions, will not...