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Trump Just Cost Republicans The House As Virginia Voters Pass New Map Boosting Democrats
Trump’s scheme to steal the midterm election by getting red states to gerrymander more Republican House seats was a poorly thought-out effort with great potential […]
The Future of the Left After Sanders
A central if underexamined question looming over the 2028 Democratic primary and the future of the American left more broadly is who will claim the […]
A Futile Defense of Act 181
Democratic lawmakers are in the process of dismantling Act 181, the landmark Act 250 reform measure designed to encourage housing where it makes the most […]
Know Your Enemy: January 6, Five Years Later
Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” […]
AI Hallucinations in Filing by a Top Law Firm
The pale-throated sloth, from Marshall, Annales du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, via Wikipedia. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), whose newsletter I very much recommend, writes about […]
DSA Prepares for May Day 2026 — and Beyond
The labor movement has marked May Day 2028 for strikes across the U.S. Now is the time to build the capabilities that will make that […]
Trump’s polls hit rock bottom as even nearly 1 in 3 Republicans now disapprove
A new poll spells disaster for President Donald Trump — with even much of his own party turning on him. According to the poll, conducted […]
Trump’s GOP majority dealt another blow as blue state passes retaliatory redistricting
In another blow to President Donald Trump, voters in Virginia on Tuesday night approved a Democratic-backed referendum to pass an aggressive mid-decade gerrymander in retaliation […]
“Witch hunt”: Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick resigns amid ethics probe
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., resigned just minutes before a committee was set to vote on a recommendation for her expulsion from the House of Representatives […]
“Fraud!”: Alex Jones spirals on social media as The Onion prepares to take over Infowars
Far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones melted down on social media on Tuesday, after learning that his right-wing conspiracist media company Infowars will […]
War, Climate Change and AI Are on the Agenda at This Year’s UN Indigenous Forum
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance and originally appeared on Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Hundreds of delegates are arriving at […]
Trump’s Permanent Ceasefire Is Really A Total Surrender To Iran
Ceasefires and the end of war are a good thing, because it means that more innocent people won’t die, but when a President Of The […]
James Comer Is Working On The Inside For Trump To Kill The Epstein Investigation
Since Republicans took control of the federal government, they have been playing a shell game with the American people. There has been a lack of […]
RFK Jr.’s medical racism is to be expected
Since his confirmation as Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a magnet for controversies, ranging from his shakeup of vaccine […]
Trump pardoned nursing home owner who owed almost $19 million to a grieving family
When Amanda Coulson was a child, she visited her mother at work at a hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Doris Coulson was a nurse, and […]
FBI hit with 20-day deadline to fork over docs related to Kash Patel’s alleged drinking
In a public records request filing submitted on Tuesday, the nonprofit watchdog group Democracy Forward gave the FBI 20 days to produce internal records as […]
Senator rips election-denying lawyer protecting Trump: ‘You assert privilege willy-nilly’
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called out former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark after Clark insisted that details surrounding a letter aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential […]
Vote Blue No Matter Who: Party Politics as Political Agency
In America today we have a party of ordinary governance and a personality cult party. Those are the two options we are now offered every […]
War, Climate Change, and AI Are on the Agenda at This Year’s UN Indigenous Forum
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance and originally appeared on Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Hundreds of delegates are arriving at […]