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Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

January 9, 2019

There was a time—and it wasn’t even as long ago as the last millennium—when the first column of an election year would open with a disclaimer that politics is full of uncertainties and then proceed to flagrantly disregard them by prognosticating anyway. Good times. In 2019, at a time when po...

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