Biden's drift to the left -- supporting health care for illegal aliens, expressing strong distaste for deporting any of them who hadn't committed major crimes -- is illustrative of a Democratic party held hostage by its woke minority.
If European countries continue to welcome Chinese investment and are unconcerned by the growth of Chinese influence, America's job will be much harder.
The people Didion writes about could not be more distinct, but all share the bleakness of living in the shadow of a progressive dream that never is realized.
Arnade's book gives a face to the back row that suffers as statistics that the more fortunate can turn their eyes from, because numbers aren't flesh and blood with pockmarked faces and track-marked arms.
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