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The anti-antisemitism movement is failing
More “calling out” by the same leaders of the same institutions isn’t going to work.
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Tomorrow is the first official test in the midterms
Here’s what we’re watching.
 • Halina Bennet
Lobsters and the limits of neoliberalism
We don’t need an abundance agenda for *everything*
 • Matthew Yglesias
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
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N.H.L. players are Republicans
The politics of professional athletes are a clear reflection of league demographics.
 • Halina Bennet
Mayors need to understand the problem
Plus my favorite dad-lit, the farmer vote, and the futile effort to constrain presidential war powers
 • Matthew Yglesias
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On sleep
 • Halina Bennet
I’m not convinced the “A.I. backlash” is real
Data center skeptics are worried about local impacts, not A.I.
 • Matthew Yglesias
The State of the Union’s housing non-moment
Efforts to solve housing at the federal level are messy, but states are picking up the slack.
 • Halina Bennet
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