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The hopes that progressives attached to the West Virginian regarding the voting-rights bill were clearly unrealistic. Plus: What to do if you want to decrease your dependence on Amazon.
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Well, what now? Five months into the Biden presidency, Democrats’ signature voting-rights legislation—the bill they symbolically introduced as the first one of the 117th Congress—met an excruciating and predictable defeat last

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