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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Wants Justice Department to Suspend Police Grants Amid Investigation Into Policing Practices

Photo: sirtravelalot (Shutterstock) After former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into the city’s police department to determine whether it “engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.” …

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The Books Briefing: How to be Happy

What Writing Has In Common With Happiness “The final line of an enigmatic Jorge Luis Borges poem became the title for Yasmina Reza’s latest book, Happy Are the Happy. For Reza, Borges’ poem suggests that happiness, which people tend to talk about as achievable and context-dependent, is dispensed more mysteriously …

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Why the Filibuster Suits the GOP Just Fine

Vikram David Amar: How to—carefully—surmount the Electoral College What share of the vote would either party have needed to reach a filibuster-proof 60 seats? By shifting the vote in each of the 100 elections by the same number of percentage points until Democrats or Republicans were ahead in 60 races, …

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