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Minnesota’s only U.S. Senator, Amy Klobuchar, is one of 14 “Senate Democrats from States with Republican Governors” that the Web site Conservapedia lists at an entry under that heading. Noting first that the U.S. Constitution gives governors the authority to name replacements when Senate seats become vacant, the Conservapedia text goes on to envision “a [...]

Blowing off “Almanac” last Friday and going to the Guthrie Theater instead seemed like a good way to put an end to an exhausting political campaign season. We got rush tickets to the penultimate performance of Arthur Miller’s play “A View from the Bridge,” ready to be transported to working-class Brooklyn purely for the escapism, without a thought to exit poll demographics. At first, it seemed to be working. Then one line at the play’s climactic scene brought it all back, unwelcome and unbidden.