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“The validity of the public debt of the United States,” the 14th Amendment declares, “shall not be questioned.” If Congressional Republicans violate this, President Biden, acting along, should do as the Constitution requires.

Ex-FBI official McGonigal worked for a sanctioned Russian oligarch, prosecutors say. Earlier, he was in charge of investigating the Trump campaign's Russian connections. Historian Timothy Snyder lays out the tangled web of facts.

Roy Wood Jr. Explores Police Militarization & Atlanta's "Cop City." Make the Super-rich Pay Their Fair Share. Memphis BLM Activist on Tyre Nichols' Killing. Why We All Need Subtitles Now. When Culture Changes Our DNA.

Reader Comments: What Price “Defense”?; Monterey Park; Readers Respond - Ukraine War and The Left; Israel; Argentina 1985; George Santos; Gun Control; Lots of Announcements; Student Activist Scholarship Applications Available; More....

Ten thousand Americans turn 60 every day, and on average we’ll live another 23 years. We’ll vote in huge numbers, as we always do. One possibility is that we’ll help turn back the clock a little, toward the world we actually built in our youth.

The Medicare privatization program "presents a threat to the integrity of traditional Medicare, and an opportunity for corporations to take money from taxpayers while denying care to beneficiaries," said Physicians for a National Health Program.

A leading Israeli think tank warns the country's “special relationship” with the US is in danger due to a progressive shift among American Jews, which poses a strategic threat to Israel.

Ruben Gallego’s rollout was strong. And a credible Democratic candidate means Sinema’s path to reelection is awfully narrow.

Parties and movements in transition

Congress hiked the nation’s top-bracket tax rate to around 90% for two decades to see the emergence in the United States of the world’s first mass middle class.