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James Bennet
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Lexington columnist, The Economist
New York, NYJoined August 2008

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What can the lame-duck session of Congress accomplish? On our “Checks and Balance” podcast: 🎧 makes the case for reform of the Electoral Count Act 🎧 A particularly productive lame-duck session 🎧 on the Dreamers
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This will leave a serious gap, in life. Thank you Kojo NNamdi for all the great years of making public radio an essential part of America.
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Big news here at @wamu885: after 23 years, @nnamdikid will be stepping away from his daily duties as host of The Kojo Nnamdi Show in early April. We are going to miss your daily presence on the radio - calm, informative and essential to our community. Thank you Kojo!
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“Americans are not the ones who will suffer most from the terrible damage....”
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The lasting damage will be profound. This, by @anneapplebaum, is so beautifully written. The kind of essay that stays with you: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
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"That calm confidence in its capacity to deceive is a mark of the mature ruling class. This accounts for its wild fury when it runs up against the type which never pays any attention to its most solemn protestations." -- C.L.R. James
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This past spring, I realized quickly how disastrous remote learning would be for many kids, through the vantage of one in particular. I assumed this would be moot, that schools would reopen where cases had fallen. I was wrong. The story of how we got here:
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