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Tomasz Zuradzki (Jagiellonian): The Normative Significance of Identifiability. In Czech election, a new threat to European unity. Jessica Loudis on why we need Stuart Hall’s imaginative Left. Arresting disabled bodies: How disabled activists turned the fight for Medicaid into a battle for civil rights. The problem is the prices: Opaque and sky high bills are breaking Americans — and our health care system. Trump World quickly abandons its obsession with email servers. Trump’s judge pick Jeff Mateer admits he discriminates against gay people. Francis Fukuyama on relaunching The American Interest. Harvey Weinstein’s former employees reckon with what they knew and what they didn’t. After Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood assistants urged to break culture of silence.

Stephen L. Morgan and Jiwon Lee (Johns Hopkins): The White Working Class and Voter Turnout in US Presidential Elections, 2004-2016. Rigged: Ari Berman on how voter suppression threw Wisconsin to Trump — and possibly handed him the whole election. Democrats should stop chasing the “sensible centrists” — they don’t exist, but voter suppression, on the other hand, is very real. Is Trump leading Congressional Republicans to slaughter? It isn’t the president’s extremism that’s sabotaging GOP incumbents, so much as his cowardly evasion of responsibility. Is it safe to say Trump is a favorite to win re-election? The incredibly boring reason Trump is on track to win in 2020.