This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.

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Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

When the world stops seeing you as a democracy, maybe stop acting like a dictatorship.

Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society.

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...

‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’