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Why Wall Street Won’t Stop Trump ( www.theatlantic.com )

Companies like to sell things, and highly educated liberal voters have disposable income to buy them. Firms wanting to profit by selling products to well-off liberals is not the same thing as sharing liberal policy priorities; this is why “woke capital” is a myth, a shallow analysis that mistakes advertising and brand...

Why Didn’t Scot Peterson Try to Stop the Parkland Shooter? - The Atlantic ( www.theatlantic.com )

Long form article on school shootings, police dept scapegoating, training for active shooters, and the confusing time to be a police officer where public feedback wants deescalation in most scenarios, but expect military or warrior mentality training for school shootings responses....

The Grim Aftermath of the E. Jean Carroll Verdict: Throughout the defamation trial, Donald Trump eroded the distinction between the court and the court of public opinion ( www.theatlantic.com )

The first time Donald Trump faced the writer E. Jean Carroll in court, in the spring of 2023, he declined to appear at the trial. He lost: The jury, finding him liable both for assaulting her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s and for defaming her in the aftermath, awarded her $5 million in damages. This month,...

The Unwitting Trump Enablers. They sound very different from the former president’s toadies, who lavish him with absurd praises. But they are part of the same project ( www.theatlantic.com )

The collapse of Republican resolve in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election on January 6, 2021, and Trump’s continued designs on power have together ensured that conservatives find it necessary to downplay or dismiss those events as much less than what they were: an assault on American...

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