Pete and Luke discuss a few articles about party politics in America.

• German Lopez, "William Barr helped establish mass incarceration. Now Trump wants him as attorney general." Vox.com (Dec 7, 2018).
• Charlie Savage, "Trump Will Nominate William Barr as Attorney General," New York Times (Dec 7, 2018).
• Dylan Scott, "What we know about the alleged election fraud plot in North Carolina," Vox.com (Dec 8, 2018).
• Sydney Ember, "North Carolina Republican Says He Would Support New Election if Fraud Occurred," New York Times (Dec 7, 2018)
• Julia Azari, "Weak parties and strong partisanship are a bad combination," Vox.com (Nov. 3, 2016).
• Yascha Mounk, "Is More Democracy Always Better Democracy?" The New Yorker (November 12, 2018).
• Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro, "Political partisanship is vicious. That’s because political parties are too weak." Washington Post (Nov. 28, 2018).

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