Politics

No One Wins Washington’s Zero-Sum Games

Stalemate

Winning a vote is not the same as winning the support of the majority of the people. By Stuart Stevens.

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Call it The Guns of August moment in October.

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In 1962, Barbara Tuchman published a brilliant narrative, The Guns of August, which told the disastrous story of how the world was swept into World War I, a conflict no one really wanted and few anticipated.

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