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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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In the stiflingly reactionary cultural atmosphere of postwar America, most filmmakers didn’t talk much about class. But there was one significant exception: film noir was the most class-conscious genre of motion picture America has ever produced.

The months ahead will be difficult. But the medical cavalry is coming, and the rest of us know what we need to do. The final death toll from Covid-19 will depend both on how we behave going forward and how quickly innovations arrive.

Biden is not going to quadruple anybody’s taxes, but he will increase the tax burden on the very rich. The richest 5 percent of taxpayers would bear almost the entire burden of Biden’s plan, which would raise $2.8 trillion over the next decade...