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Jun 2021
1h 6m

The “Murder Mystery” Edition

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Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: The Ezra Klein Show: “Obama Explains How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’” Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, by Patrick Sharkey  AmericanViolence.org Monica C. Bell for the Yale Law Journal: “Police Reform and the Dismantling of ... Show More
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