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In the president’s warped world, his increasingly deranged demands are never the problem—only his underlings’ failures to meet them.

As dissent over the Iran war spreads to the political center, demonstrators face crackdowns while opposition lawmakers are still nowhere to be seen.

The dominance of human spaceflight has repeatedly pressured science missions that lack the same political protection. Despite the most aggressive budget challenge the program has faced, Congress chose to protect it.

Many countries still go to war believing that God is on their side. Just as dangerous are those that believe that they will win because technology is on their side.

Access to workers’ nest eggs has long been a goal of the private equity industry. It has lobbied hard for this protection for employers as it wants to tap into the $9 billion in workers’ 401(k) accounts.

Beat poet Diane di Prima reminds her readers that there is more than one form of resistance, more than one path to freedom.

President Trump used an Easter lunch to talk about how we can’t take care of kids or sick people—we can only take care of the U.S. military. His message for his base - Listen here.

Based on oral arguments, the Supreme Court seems poised to block Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. Six justices, three Republicans, scoffed at his efforts to overrule birthright citizenship rights spelled out in the 14th Amendment.

Republicans don't need to gut the social safety net again in order to pass Trump's latest series of priorities. But that's not what they'll tell you. GOP will attempt to push SAVE America Act and war funding into new Reconciliation Bill.