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The best books of 2016 list you get when you combine 36 “Best Books of 2016” lists
Slavery. Racism. Urbanism. Disease. While 2016 may not have been a banner year for liberal democracy in the world at large, it should definitely go down as a woke time in book publishing. For dedicated bibliophiles, the low thrum of literary FOMO that bubbles up around May has by mid-December evolved into a full-fledged panic. Every week brings a new “best books of the year” list, each one littered with titles you haven’t even heard of, let alone read.
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The Lists Told Us Otherwise
What I saw in Dover was too much campaign spending and too little party building, a campaign-in-a-box imported from outside, flaunting best practices but tied too weakly into the community, mobilizing too little and too late. By Daniel Schlozman.
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Democracy Is Dying as Technocrats Watch
Assaults on democracy are working because our current political elites have no idea how to defend it. By William Easterly.
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Clinton Really Shouldn’t Have Told Voters That Trump Wasn’t a Regular Republican
New analyses suggest that many pro-choice and economically liberal Democrats voted for Trump because they didn’t think he was a normal Republican. By Eric Levitz.
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Emptywheel: The Hashtag DrainTheSwamp and the Structure of Trump’s Power
I’ve been a bit of a Debbie Downer on the Twitters of late, because I’ve been nagging people about anti-Trump humor. By Marcy Wheeler.
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Team Bernie: Hillary ‘F*cking Ignored’ Us in Swing States
Hindsight is 20/20, but members of Sanders’s team in critical swing states say they knew Clinton was going to lose—and their warnings were ignored. By Asawin Suebsaeng.
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Hits and misses: indie publishers pick their books of 2016
Small and independent houses share the books they enjoyed and envied this year. By Eloise Millar.
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Best of media corrections, 2016 edition
Our annual collection of media corrections is, undoubtedly, an excuse to chuckle at our industry’s missteps. But it’s also a recognition of an honorable practice… By Alexios Mantzarlis.
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The Times They Lived 2016
Remembering Muhammad Ali, Gwen Ifill, David Bowie, Natalie Cole and more of those we lost in the past year.
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It Wasn’t the Russians
Hillary Lost Because She Blew off Sanders and His Voters. By Dave Lindorff.
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Urgent to Progressives: Stop Fueling the Anti-Russia Frenzy
“Let’s face it: Some of the fierceness of media attacks on Trump, such as from de facto neoconservative liberal-tinged entities like the Washington Post, is propelled by rage that his stance toward Russia lacks the neocon qualities that a Hillary Clinton presidency offered.” By Norman Solomon.
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More Electors Tried To Defect From Hillary Clinton Than Donald Trump
The Electoral College gathered in 50 states to formalize results of last month's election amid increased scrutiny. Despite pressure on Trump electors, more defected from Clinton than the Republican. By Scott Detrow.
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The Problem With Using Fascist as a Political Insult
Fascism is in the running to be Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year. But it’s not the right word for the current moment. By Dominic Green.
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White supremacist website calls for action in Montana
A white supremacist website called The Daily Stormer has posted a call to “take action” against Jewish people in Whitefish, providing personal contact information and urging a “troll storm” against them. By Keila Szpaller and Gwen Florio.
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In the Chappaqua woods, a search for Hillary Clinton
She was a politician running. Now she’s a person hiking. By Stephanie McCrummen.
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The Deranged Twitter Thread That Proves Establishment Liberals Have Lost Their Minds
Why did establishment liberals fall in love with a deranged Twitter thread? It’s time for some game theory. By Sam Kriss.
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Republican legislators in North Carolina curb the powers of the incoming Democratic governor
In young democracies—say, in the former Soviet Union—politicians’ views of the proper power of any given office often depend on their chances of occupying it. In North Carolina, this constitutional sabotage has re-energised protesters who for several years have objected to the legislature’s reactionary initiatives...
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Clinton Says ‘Personal Beef’ by Putin Led to Hacking Attacks
Mrs. Clinton has kept a low profile since the election, but speaking to donors on Thursday, she said the hacking had played a role in her defeat. By Amy Chozick.
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Why the Democrats Can’t Let Go of Losing
The Democratic Party has become everything it once was against. By Charles Hugh Smith.
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Top 10 art installations of 2016
Designboom rounds-up the top 10 art installations of 2016, whether they be temporary, public, permanently fixed, interactive, or informative.
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