Charles Lane

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When the White House said there is nothing “official” about the definition of a recession as a two-quarter drop in GDP, Republican mockery lit up the internet.

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Human beings have a hierarchy of needs, at the top of which are eating and staying warm, with internet gambling and video streaming a lot lower on the list.

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Plucking leaders violently from society divides time when life was unimaginable without these prominent figures and another where life is unimaginable with them.

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Civil rights groups contend that racism so badly taints U.S. capital punishment, it should not even be sought against a white supremacist mass murderer.

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Whatever the Supreme Court majority may have taken into account as they finally put paid to the abortion law, it wasn’t the GOP's short-term political gain.

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Policy cannot simultaneously maximize gas-price affordability, incentives for domestic production and environmental protection.

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The Jan. 6 committee is raising alarms about extreme Republicans who support Trump's stolen-election fantasy, yet Democrats are quietly supporting just these sorts of candidates in the belief that they'll be easier to beat in the fall. That's a dangerous game.

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In recent years, it has often projected impending insolvency for these giant federal reserves.

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To acknowledge this particular, limited upside can help us understand our fiscal and economic predicaments — and how we muddle through them.