The Purveyor of Half Measures
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Each great essayist has a quip about the two-party system. I. F. Stone wrote that it appears “like those magic black and white squares which look like a staircase at one moment and a checkerboard the next. Sometimes the two parties seem very distinct and sometimes they seem very much alike.” Gore Vidal put it more […]