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For followers of Hayek eager to smash the “para-government,” Trump must look like a godsend. How might conservatives do so? By advancing drastic institutional changes even Hayek conceded could seem undemocratic, such as making voting a once-in-a-lifetime act, for example, and lengthening legislative terms to fifteen years. Resting on popular support, the welfare state’s curtailment required attacking democracy.

Tongue-in-cheek, Marin poet Rebecca Foust offers a sonnet about the seven deadly sins, and rich people who have their trickle-down rationalizations.

How a race riot in New York state inspired a generation to reconsider America’s vulnerability to fascism.

President of oldest US pro-Israel group salutes ‘new sane era’ as Trump’s views underscore divisions among Jews and influence of evangelical Christians

Effort meant to inform younger generations about energy and the environment sees sentences reworked and pie charts eliminated.

An 11-page memo obtained by The Associated Press could have led to the use of the National Guard for "enforcement action" against millions of immigrants