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The press is mostly framing the Yemen group chat scandal as a story of incompetence. There’s little attention being paid to the deadliness, illegality, and ineffectiveness of the strikes themselves.

"This bill would rubber-stamp unchecked abuses of power even further," said the leader of one government watchdog group.

Democrats scored key victories in Pennsylvania.

"The principal virtue of the book," writes reviewer Koppelman, "is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions."

As it becomes increasingly clear what a second Trump presidency means, America's labor movement has positioned itself as democracy's strongest, most important and best-organized line of defense against a sweeping authoritarian agenda.

The world economy is going through some stuff

“This is a way to defund Black people as a whole," retired federal worker Janice Lee said, referring to the layoffs of black government workers.

Liberals and conservatives face off in the most political apolitical race in the country.

The Supreme Court said in 2010 that the decision wouldn’t damage Americans’ faith in democracy. Whoops.

The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.