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Trump's Op Ed in USA Today and a Fact Check.org article on his claims.

53% view the Vermont senator favorably, 38% unfavorably Nearly four in five Democrats have a positive view of Sanders Ocasio-Cortez's ratings are mixed, and half of Americans don't know her

More than 200,000 people have been marching in the German capital Berlin to protest against xenophobia and the increasing influence of the far right.

Research data from 160,000 adults in 31 countries concludes that a sizeable home library gave teen school leavers skills equivalent to university graduates who didn’t read

The Abrams campaign expected voter suppression, had organizations in place to combat it and, at least mathematically, has a path to victory that assumes thousands of voters might be purged and not find out until Election Day.

"Avoid anything that could be construed as progressive or risk never working in television again."

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After a high-profile national tour, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends her perceived missteps — and calls cynicism “the greatest enemy of the progressive left.”

In 2005 after John Roberts was confirmed, Howard Zinn wrote: It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds.