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Washington and Lee can’t find a new name, so it’s sticking with this one

Virginia’s Washington and Lee University announced Friday that its Board of Trustees had voted in favor of keeping its name, which honors the first U.S. president, George Washington, and a famed traitor, Robert E. Lee. The preservation of the name came as something of a surprise to some, as many institutions are dropping Confederate names (including Washington and Lee, which is renaming the Lee Chapel, … Continue reading Washington and Lee can’t find a new name, so it’s sticking with this one

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Americans hate HOAs. Why do so many people live in them?

It’s February. I am sipping a mint julep and pretending that summer has arrived and quarantine is over when my friend, who we’ll call Mary, sends me a question over Discord. “Why,” Mary asked, “is every house I could afford to buy located in an HOA?” It’s a good question. Mary, 30, is a millennial, and above all the other things it means to be … Continue reading Americans hate HOAs. Why do so many people live in them?

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You Asked: Where Are The American Communists?

On Patreon (I cannot stress enough how important your support on Patreon is), we ask supporters to occasionally toss questions over to us that they want answered that are a little bit harder to get an answer to than something you might ask on Quora. For this, the fifth piece in our series You Asked, we’re tackling a red herring. I’ve heard of the Democratic Socialists of America, … Continue reading You Asked: Where Are The American Communists?

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The right wants you to think cancel culture is a bigger problem than it is

Every year, we add a couple new terms to the zeitgeist. In January 2020, we brought both “awesomesauce” and “weak sauce” into the Oxford English Dictionary, which was probably a great sign that the year was going to be swell. But no word has splashed down and stuck around quite like “problematic,” which broke into the mainstream around 2014, lodged itself in the cultural consciousness, … Continue reading The right wants you to think cancel culture is a bigger problem than it is

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You Asked: How hard is it to defeat an incumbent in a primary?

On Patreon (really, go support us on Patreon), we ask supporters to occasionally toss questions over to us that they want answered that are a little bit harder to get an answer to than something you might ask on Quora. For this, the fourth piece in our new series You Asked, everyone is suddenly interested in primary challenges for some reason. I’ve seen a lot of … Continue reading You Asked: How hard is it to defeat an incumbent in a primary?

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GOP efforts to stymie voting demonstrate that they know they lost in 2020

Republican candidates, by and large, did not have a great 2020. Georgia ousted its Republican senators, Trump-backed Republicans struggled in moderate Congressional districts, and Trump himself lost the White House. For the months that followed – and as recently as this week, at CPAC – Trump and his cronies have maintained that wide-scale election fraud was behind their defeats. But in state legislatures around the … Continue reading GOP efforts to stymie voting demonstrate that they know they lost in 2020

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No one is scared of reddit investors

There have been a lot of memes circulating since the WallStreetBets reddit began its Wall Street rampage last week. Most of those memes focus on how redditors are some kind of ragtag group of misfits who are destabilizing the market and have professional investors quivering in their $50,000 shoes. But just how accurate is this image? Are investors really scared of what is happening and … Continue reading No one is scared of reddit investors

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Deqification

In the aftermath of World War II, the victorious Allies faced a daunting task. Not only had the war had a devastating impact on Germany’s industrial and economic might – since mangling the German industrial machine was essential to defeating its military – but the Allies were faced with a territory that had undergone years of intense propagandizing. Stationed for many years in Berlin, CBS … Continue reading Deqification

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Nearly every Trump accomplishment collapsed in the first day of the Biden administration

If you were to make a list of the accomplishments of the Trump administration, although it might not be long, it would include many of the things that Donald Trump set out to do when he ran in 2016. The United States pulled back from the global political community to become more isolationist, it revoked a number of the environmental and social policies of the … Continue reading Nearly every Trump accomplishment collapsed in the first day of the Biden administration

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