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President Biden should do “whatever it takes” to avoid an economic catastrophe. House GOP-led efforts are to blame for the impending debt crisis. In 2011, the GOP’s demands for massive spending cuts sabotaged the Great Recession recovery.

Neither CNN nor its host was able to take control as the ex-president played steamroller, to the audience’s delight. It began and ended in a way that absolutely everyone could have predicted.

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.

It made a kind of perverse and dangerous sense that some settler-homesteaders like my great-grandfather would seek to relocate the source of their legitimacy from where they lived and what they did to who they thought they were, that is, from the land to the blood.

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.”

"Today's ruling from a MAGA judge—who was hand-selected to hear this case by the anti-abortion activists who brought it—is an audacious act of judicial meddling in our personal healthcare decisions," said one reproductive rights campaigner.