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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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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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Many of the same patterns have appeared when extremists attack other targets.
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How might environmental anxiety impact the midterm elections? Grist looked at the nation’s most competitive House races.
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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.
read moreWomen Might Save America Yet
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
read moreTrump wades into California...
President will sign memo directing agencies to review standards that conservatives argue are keeping water from farmers
read moreThe Republican Party Moves Bey...
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.
read moreJon Tester Bets the Farm
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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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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Obama, Clinton, Soros, Holder, Brennan, Waters, and CNN were targets.
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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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Even by Georgia standards, the voter purge of late July 2017 was remarkable. In a single day, more than half a million people …
read moreDoubling down on fear: Attacks...
Facing what could be a sweeping defeat next month, Trump and Republicans play to the their supporters’ paranoia
read moreThe Person Is Political
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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Michael Avenatti must pay $4.85 million to a former colleague who claims the lawyer stiffed him out of millions in profits…
read moreArms and the Very Bad Men
Trump’s rationale for going easy on Saudi Arabia is a shameful lie.
read moreAmerica Descends Into the Poli...
Trump and other practitioners may reap short-term gains, but history suggests they will provoke a fearsome backlash.
read moreAmid complaints of a rigged sy...
An era of surging activism is generating new attempts to make the process of drawing congressional maps more impartial –
read moreIn 2020, Democrats Expect a Fe...
Three prominent female Democrats all but openly began running for president this week…
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Locked in a tight race, the Missouri senator is still digging up dirt on the painkiller industry.
read moreHow Tom Steyer Built the Bigge...
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.
read moreTrump administration asks high...
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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“Inflection Point” talks to MN Rep. Erin Maye Quade about why rejecting the “mythological middle” worked
read moreJohn Adams’ Fears About Americ...
Wealth “will accumulate,” he warned Thomas Jefferson. “The Snow ball will grow as it rolls.”
read moreThe Most Important Election of...
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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