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The real lesson of Spirit’s bankruptcy
Plus pragmatism for conservatives, places I haven’t been, and what’s cooking in Ann Arbor
 • Matthew Yglesias
Thursday discussion post
Here’s what you missed on X.
 • Halina Bennet
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Matt and Jerusalem read Betty Friedan’s classic, “The Feminine Mystique”
A prescient, influential, and slightly bizarre book
 • Matthew Yglesias
Political commentary should be boring
Old man yells at podcast clouds
 • Matthew Yglesias
Are we kind of being pricks?
Everybody has a crafty way of getting around development incentives without doing any development.
 • Halina Bennet
Don’t copy Donald Trump’s failed presidency
The Orange Man is bad at the job.
 • Matthew Yglesias
Tuesday discussion post
On marriage
 • Halina Bennet
Seniors aren’t living on “fixed incomes”
It’s not 1967 anymore — the world has changed.
 • Matthew Yglesias
Trump is losing his own people
Where the races and the voters stand — with six months until Election Day.
 • Halina Bennet
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