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Republicans are threatening to tank the global economy if President Biden doesn’t agree to slash spending on social welfare programs. It’s a trap.

There’s a new demographic wave — a tsunami, really — forming in the not-so-distant future that could finally break the recent pattern of partisan gridlock. The youth cohorts growing up right now are just dramatically different from their predecessors

"What old men know is that everything can change. What old men know, too, is that all that is gained can be lost. Lost just as the liberation that the Civil War and Emancipation brought was squandered after Reconstruction..."

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is doing acrobatics to outflank Trump as the most uncritically 'pro-Israel' GOP candidate. His brutal, repressive vision for America is a perfect partner for Netanyahu's vision for Israel and the Palestinians

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A huge number of his members have no idea what they’re doing. Legislating is a skill—maybe even an art — for which it’s useful for members to have experience with something beyond mouthing off and posing for cheesy photos with their favorite firearms

The last time such serious allegations were made against a sitting justice, Congress responded firmly, in bipartisan fashion. Justice Abe Fortas’s 1969 departure from the court is a blueprint for how lawmakers could respond and how far we have fallen

The expulsions of two Black lawmakers, following large student protests for gun control, are part of a sweeping generational battle, in which “Republicans around the country are pushing for laws to make it more difficult for young people to vote.”

Former President Donald Trump was indicted today by a New York Grand Jury for criminal violations that may have occurred when Trump’s team paid two women to stay silent about alleged affairs with candidate Trump in 2016.

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