JUAN COLE Originally published on 10/17/2021 in Informed Comment Reprinted here with the permission of the author Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American journalists like to personalize stories and create horse races empty of real content. That is why most Americans don’t know what is in the Democratic Build Back Better Bill backed by…
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