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Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story"

How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta

Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class

Tyler Cowen explains it all

Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way

Rachel Maddow on skinhead rallies, AIDS activism, and why she doesn't read op-eds

Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dating Hillary Clinton, and fighting inequality

Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.

Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics

Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read