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Michael A. Cohen

Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for The Boston Globe on national politics and foreign affairs and is the author of American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division (2016). Previously, he was a columnist for The Guardian, The Observer, and Foreign Policy. He has also worked as a speechwriter at the US State Department and has been a lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. (February 2019)

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Mitch McConnell, Republican Nihilist

Mitch McConnell has undermined the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and turned it into another area of partisan conflict. Yet he appears largely uninterested in the consequences of his actions on the nation’s fractured politics.

February 25, 2019

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