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Fire-breathing rhetoric, or raving three a.m. tweets, may assuage the anger of those left behind by the Reagan revolution, at least for a while. But for how long? And what happens then?

Trump took the oath of office on Friday with his associates under investigation by the FBI, aided by the NSA, CIA and Treasury Department.

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To watch him take the oath was to bear witness to democracy’s fragility.

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Communities of color in Chicago meticulously documented the CPD's pattern of racist violence.

Communities of color in Chicago meticulously documented the CPD's pattern of racist violence.

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Brexit has come to the United States. For thirty years now, in Europe and the United States, a bipartisan neoliberal consensus has embraced the benefits of globalization and the rise of the "knowledge economy." If only workers would go back to school, retrain, and send their children to college, the good jobs that disappeared would somehow return. But those good jobs did not arrive, and voters have opted for a faux populism that promises to reverse globalization.