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Warm up for Mother's Day with some hot takes

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I’m getting ready for the cicadas.

The moderate candidate often wins

Dana Rubenstein and Emma Fitzsimmons report for The New York Times on possible conflicts of interest given that Andrew Yang’s campaign manager is also a wealthy businessman and occasional lobbyist. But the article also goes in for some fairly odd editorializing in a news piece:

Voters wh…

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