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The Political Consequences of Opioid Overdoses

The United States suffered a dramatic and well-documented increase in drug-related deaths from 2000 to 2018, primarily driven by prescription and non-prescription opioids, and concentrated in white and working-class areas.
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Interest Groups in a Hyper-Partisan World

Acknowledging human behavior, Madison said that if we are to live in the free society envisioned in the Constitution, then people will use that freedom to advocate on behalf of their own self-interest.
Democrat donkey next to Republican elephant

Trump Hasn’t Given Up on Divide and Conquer

It worked for him before, but will the rising racial liberalism of white Democrats counter the rising racial conservatism of white Republicans? Is that even the right way to frame the question?