Why Democrats can't find a wartime consigliere.

What are the impacts of education polarisation in the political field? This instalment of Slow Boring reflects on the Democrats’ difficulty obtaining smart lawyers that will provide stellar work for progressive causes and why it’s necessary to have access to experts who make their allegiances clear.

Michael Satow

Matthew Yglesias is the author of the Slow Boring newsletter, a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, and host of The Weeds podcast.

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A daily newsletter from journalist Matthew Yglesias.

Slow Boring covers American politics and public policy. The name comes from Max Weber’s essay on “Politics as a Vocation” where he writes that “Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards” that “takes both passion and perspective.”