The "It's Happened Before, It'll Happen Again" Edition: The Coming Economic Slump.

Hackwhackers w/ history, & Zandar w/ what's happening now. Mortgage rates are up too. And do you remember "cryptocurrency"? Balloon Juice does.

Old theocrats never die, they just fade into the background: Mike Pence's political obituary, from Outside the Beltway.

Abortion, Every Day:

Breaking the Overton Window
Can we stop calling feminists 'hysterical' now?

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