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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

America's Got Problems


America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/06/red-and-blue-state-divide-is-growing-michael-podhorzer-newsletter/661377/
 
The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/roe-overturned-supreme-court-samuel-alito-opinion/661386/ 
 
Outdated America is intent on setting itself back as far as possible
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/06/27/outdated-america-intent-setting-back-far-possible/
America’s problems somehow always track back to its Constitution, and the rigidity with which it is applied to contemporary life. Instead of looking to freshen up its centuries-old rulebook, like the vast majority of other countries worldwide, it seems to be taking the reverse course – with dangerous results”


The Liberals Who Won’t Acknowledge the Crime Problem
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/us-city-violent-crime-rate-perception/661337/
Crime is also a proxy for a deeper malaise, that inchoate sense of almost-but-not-quite social collapse that’s in the air we breathe, impossible to measure with precision but unmistakably palpable all the same. The malaise draws on our own confusion, driven by the intuition that things aren’t as they should be. Burglaries and homicides are not the only signs that something is amiss. The tent encampments that have spread across our nation’s capital over the past two years suggest that something has gone very, very wrong. This is the most powerful city in the world, and yet people are living in makeshift tents in its richest neighborhoods, a stone’s throw from the White House and Capitol Hill. 

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