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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.


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PAUL MANAFORT Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media ...
PAUL MANAFORT If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I&...
PAUL RYAN The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. Pe...
PAUL RYAN If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew...
PAUL FARMER These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in tea...
PAUL CELLUCCI As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But w...
PAUL TONKO Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute supp...
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