Pentagon socialism

Nov 2, 2018 by

Militarizing the economy in the name of defense.

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Don’t compare the US surviving...

Nov 2, 2018 by

It is tempting to find reassurance in the comparison: America survived the turmoil, division and bloodshed of 1968. I find no basis for such solace.

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The Democrats’ Next Job: Bury ...

Nov 2, 2018 by

Voters don’t like Republican policies, but conservatives win by spinning a good story about economics. Liberals need to do the same.

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The Role Harassment Plays in C...

Nov 2, 2018 by

Many of the same patterns have appeared when extremists attack other targets.

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Worry Wards

Oct 31, 2018 by

How might environmental anxiety impact the midterm elections? Grist looked at the nation’s most competitive House races.

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What’s Really Needed to Fight ...

Oct 31, 2018 by

Who will close the gap?

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A Supreme Court Impeachment Fi...

Oct 31, 2018 by

A decade ago, West Virginia foreshadowed the influence that money and politics have come to have on state judiciaries. Now, it may warn of a worrying new trend.

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Women Might Save America Yet

Oct 29, 2018 by

It’s too soon to tell whether America will survive Trump in any recognizable form. But if it does, it will be because women like Gabriel

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Trump wades into California...

Oct 26, 2018 by

President will sign memo directing agencies to review standards that conservatives argue are keeping water from farmers

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Health Care, Hatred and Lies

Oct 26, 2018 by

Hate is how Republicans change the subject from policy.

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The Republican Party Moves Bey...

Oct 26, 2018 by

The president’s supporters live a double-folded state of being, in which the same action that’s shameful for Democrats is praiseworthy for the GOP.

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Jon Tester Bets the Farm

Oct 25, 2018 by

In a tight race, the Montana senator is trying to show the state’s white working class that it still has a home in the Montana .

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Who Needs a Border Wall When Y...

Oct 24, 2018 by

A new, quietly introduced visa form reminds us that mind-numbing bureaucracy can be an effective family-separation tool if that’s your game.

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What We Know About the Suspici...

Oct 24, 2018 by

Obama, Clinton, Soros, Holder, Brennan, Waters, and CNN were targets.

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Letters: ‘The GOP Is Too Far G...

Oct 24, 2018 by

Readers react to one steadfast Republican’s reasons for staying loyal to his party—in spite of the wounds inflicted by Donald Trump.

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They didn’t vote … now they ca...

Oct 23, 2018 by

Even by Georgia standards, the voter purge of late July 2017 was remarkable. In a single day, more than half a million people …

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Doubling down on fear: Attacks...

Oct 23, 2018 by

Facing what could be a sweeping defeat next month, Trump and Republicans play to the their supporters’ paranoia

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The Person Is Political

Oct 23, 2018 by

LGBTQ legal strategy has long focused on equal protection. But if identity itself can be political speech, the First Amendment could be our future.

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Big Loss for Michael Avenatti ...

Oct 22, 2018 by

Michael Avenatti must pay $4.85 million to a former colleague who claims the lawyer stiffed him out of millions in profits…

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Arms and the Very Bad Men

Oct 22, 2018 by

Trump’s rationale for going easy on Saudi Arabia is a shameful lie.

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Barack Obama Just Delivered th...

Oct 22, 2018 by

“The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference.”

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America Descends Into the Poli...

Oct 22, 2018 by

Trump and other practitioners may reap short-term gains, but history suggests they will provoke a fearsome backlash.

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Amid complaints of a rigged sy...

Oct 19, 2018 by

An era of surging activism is generating new attempts to make the process of drawing congressional maps more impartial –

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In 2020, Democrats Expect a Fe...

Oct 19, 2018 by

Three prominent female Democrats all but openly began running for president this week…

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Will Claire McCaskill’s War on...

Oct 19, 2018 by

Locked in a tight race, the Missouri senator is still digging up dirt on the painkiller industry.

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How Tom Steyer Built the Bigge...

Oct 19, 2018 by

Having spent $120 million and signed up 6 million people, Tom Steyer has assembled, in a year, an organization with more reach than the NRA.

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Trump administration asks high...

Oct 18, 2018 by

President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday for a second time asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put the brakes on a lawsuit…

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Don’t talk about race, guns or...

Oct 18, 2018 by

“Inflection Point” talks to MN Rep. Erin Maye Quade about why rejecting the “mythological middle” worked

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John Adams’ Fears About Americ...

Oct 18, 2018 by

Wealth “will accumulate,” he warned Thomas Jefferson. “The Snow ball will grow as it rolls.”

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The Most Important Election of...

Oct 17, 2018 by

The midterms will determine whether Donald Trump’s two-year assault on democratic norms will be repudiated—or validated. No pressure.

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