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Charlie Pierce has some memorable commentary on the Trayvon Martin murder, such as Trayvon Martin and the End of Excuses Esquire Politics Blog 03/23/2012:I am sick to death of people who celebrate "the family" making excuses about why other people's children are expendable. I am sick to death of politicians who are more concerned about protecting zygotes than about the teenagers on whom they seek to balance their budgets and advance their careers.
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Charlie Pierce has a great tribute to George McGovern, Happy Birthday, George McGovern Esquire Politics Blog 07/19/2012:The man whom Bobby Kennedy called "the most decent man in the Senate" turns 90 today.The worst thing that ever h... Read Post

"The worst crimes against democracy are always the ones committed under the law," Charlie Pierce writes in We Are All Legal: 2012's Voter Suppression Carries On Esquire Politics Blog 03/06/2012.He's writing with particular reference... Read Post

Charlie Pierce and the imaginary Irish setter Moral Hazard have become the definitive interpreters of David "Bobo" Brooks' works, such as they are.In Our Mr. Brooks Has a Problem with Boys Esquire Politics Blog 07/06/2012, he render... Read Post