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To counter authoritarian drift, Democrats can’t just swap out nominees. They need to be bold.

Hearing echoes of Independence Day a century ago, when Americans were clashing over race, religion, immigration and presidential candidates.

The wars, the issues, and the protests, differ in key ways.

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally falls into third place despite strong showing in first round of voting

Drug strategy, shown to produce hemoglobin in lab animals, could rival costly, risky gene therapies

The protests of the excluded and alienated will count on and beyond Election Day. The relative momentum of movements is likely to matter not only in voter turnout but also in the potentially tumultuous events that may follow November 5.

“[T]he court rightly held that the Mississippi Legislature used the redistricting process to dilute the power of Black voters. Those legislative districts denied Black Mississippians an equal voice in state government.”

This year, state advocates were better equipped to organize in opposition to harmful bills

"Trump is now desperately trying to run from his deep ties to Project 2025... MAGA extremists' radical wish list for a second Trump term," President Joe Biden's campaign said.

In exchange for loyalty, the president allows the military to drain public finances, while propping up a genocidal Israel in service of the West.