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The threat of U.S. strikes on cartels could upend a century of delicate relations with Mexico.

Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it.

A nativist theory from the lunatic fringe has been revived and given a sloppy originalist makeover for Supreme Court approval.

Donald Trump’s appointment of a special envoy reignites a fight over the Arctic island.

Just one in ten American voters supports greater spending on the military. That didn’t stop the US Senate from joining the House of Representatives last week in voting to pass a record-breaking $901 billion defense budget for next year.

“This decision endangers the health, lives, and futures of the people who have served our country—and it proves what we’ve long warned: Trump and his allies won’t stop until they’ve imposed a national abortion ban.

A hybrid model of assemblies may be the key to bringing in vast numbers of people into the process of forging a new world and governing the one we have.

Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.

Remember the Stonewall Rebellion Veterans! (1920), Just Who Might Be a War Criminal, Anyway? (1945), Your Constitutional Rights Can’t Defend Themselves (1980)

Reformers must insist on remaking institutions like the US Supreme Court so that Americans don’t have to suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule that makes a parody of the democracy they were promised.