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Republicans have been laying the groundwork to restrain a Biden administration on federal spending by focusing on the price tag for virus relief. It makes it all the more critical that Democrats retake the Senate and eliminate the filibuster.

Instead of exploiting the Armenian and Azerbaijan conflict, the U.S. should work with the OSCE Minsk Group to support a ceasefire and a stable negotiated peace that respects the human rights and self-determination of all the people of the region.

We wait, helplessly, to see whether the forces opposed to Trumpism inside the United States will succeed.

This week US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) charged corporate dark money is behind a plot, bearing all the marks of a covert operation, to control the Supreme Court and undermine the independence of the judicial branch of the federal government.

Amid national crises, Lincoln and his Republicans remade the Supreme Court to fit their agenda

"The next White House should belong to the people, not corporate America," said Jamaal Bowman, a New York Democrat.

Her originalism ignores the significance of the second American Revolution -- the Civil War and Reconstruction.

The idea that we should not try to control infections other than of vulnerable groups is based on a complete misunderstanding of the real choices facing the US

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