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Why did it take so long for other presidents to appreciate the power of these regulatory counterweights?

War, peace and Taylor Swift

The UAW was poised to call out the 5,000 members at GM’s assembly plant in Arlington, Texas, but In the eleventh hour, GM agreed to put battery manufacturing facilities for electric vehicles into its national union contract.

It’s distressing to see this nightmare unfolding precisely because we’ve been down this same road so many times before and, by now, should know exactly where it leads. It takes us back to where we began.

The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The military and intelligence failure does not absolve Netanyahu of his overall responsibility for the crisis.

Revolving Door Project research reveals that right-wing elites in the Horatio Alger Association stand to benefit from a lawsuit attempting to destroy the CFPB. The group has close ties to Clarence Thomas

The country’s Constitution was once the standard-bearer for the world. Today, many other countries have much fairer systems for electing their leaders and passing laws.

While it’s necessary, condemning attacks on civilians isn’t enough. If we are serious about ending this spiraling violence, we need to look at root causes. And that means – hard as it may be for some to acknowledge it – we must look at the context.

We didn’t stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, but nonetheless, it was a win. It was part of a longer struggle to radically transform our carbon economy, our extractivist economy.

A new book explores the opportunity Jewish immigrants found on the South Dakota prairie — and what it cost Native Americans.