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The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them. Taxing the rich to save social insurance has the further virtue of splitting Republicans, who are divided....

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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.

Only two of four AIPAC-backed Democratic House candidates won, despite tens of millions in spending. An absurd $92 million was spent on four open-seat House races and an open Senate race, a corruption of democracy that is relatively unprecedented

Democrats try to figure it out in real time, on the world stage in Munich. And, center stage was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive Democratic congresswoman from New York, along with Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan.

Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

From Venezuela to Yemen to Iran, the extrajudicial slaughter of civilians has been allowed to continue. What we are witnessing in the Caribbean and elsewhere today has been years in the making. Who will put a stop to it?

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Pragmatism is required to build a social democratic New York. The key to radical reform, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani clearly understands, is to be pragmatic as all hell.