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<em>The Atlantic </em>Politics Daily: What Warren Won’t Say

Elizabeth Warren emerges as a front-runner with one particular hangup: admitting how to pay for Medicare for All.

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It’s Thursday, October 16. Today, interrogating the 2020 Democratic front-runner. ¶ Plus, putting a price tag on Medicare for All. ¶ Finally, have you heard of Jon McNaughton? You may have seen his art.

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The latest Democratic primary debate lacked electricity. Overshadowing the wholly “disorienting evening,” David Graham writes, is the ongoing impeachment inquiry:

“There are several reasons the

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