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When Will Democrats Learn Unifying America Is for Suckers?

Centrists like Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg want to govern like Obama — which led to Trump.

5 min readNov 25, 2019

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When Will Democrats Learn Unifying America Is for Suckers?

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The Business Plot to Stop the Left Takes Shape

The wealthy look to Deval Patrick and Michael Bloomberg and to save them from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders

3 min readNov 13, 2019

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The Business Plot to Stop the Left Takes Shape

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Kentucky Shows Making People’s Lives Hell Isn’t a Winning Strategy

This week’s elections have a lesson: even red states can reject right-wing government

3 min readNov 6, 2019

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Kentucky Shows Making People’s Lives Hell Isn’t a Winning Strategy

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The Problem Is You

This morning, a pair of researchers from the University of Houston and Boston University published a piece in the Washington Post about the…

6 min readJul 15, 2017

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The Problem Is You

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How America Enables Farm Labor Exploitation

And how Donald Trump is making it worse.

5 min readJun 12, 2017

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How America Enables Farm Labor Exploitation

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Yes, there is something “unseemly” about making lots of money

Former president Barack Obama is about to take $400,000 to speak to a group of Wall Street people at a conference sponsored by Cantor…

5 min readApr 26, 2017

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Yes, there is something “unseemly” about making lots of money

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The DCCC thinks you’re an idiot

The line from some Democrats in the wake of the closer-than-expected Kansas special election was fairly predictable: don’t cry because it’s…

5 min readApr 12, 2017

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i’m just noting the political realities

There’s a certain kind of liberal thinker — not common, but common enough — who doesn’t just value compromise, but thinks the fact that…

3 min readApr 4, 2017

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Did Roy Cooper fully understand HB 2?

We already know that when Pat McCrory signed HB 2 last year, he didn’t understand what the hell was in it.

3 min readMar 31, 2017

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Lawsuit: Raleigh police frisked man, then strip-searched man in a vacant commercial space at a…

The officers later settled out of court for $117,000, which was paid, along with over $90,000 in legal fees, by the city of Raleigh.

4 min readMar 10, 2017

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Paul Blest

Paul Blest

Journalist based in Raleigh, N.C., ex-Splinter and INDY Week. Bylines at GEN, The American Prospect, The Outline, VICE, The Nation. Twitter: @pblest

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