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The president’s low approval is democracy working. Voters are holding him accountable
The problem is a Republican Party that’s not promising to do more to fight the covid pandemic. It’s promising to do less.
Cheney hints at criminal charges for Trump in panel vote to hold Mark Meadows in contempt
But perhaps the biggest news was that the vote was televised.
If last week’s carve-out to the filibuster rule can be done to raise the debt ceiling, it can be done to save democracy, too
Anoa Changa: the point of no return is fast approaching.
Bob Dole’s death inspired nostalgia among liberals for a time in politics that never was
It’s sounds nice, but it’s not true.
Why didn’t the system ever hold Jeffrey Epstein to account? Because he was the system
The ongoing trial of Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell reminds us it’s impossible to remove the politics of race and class from the equation.
Behind Republican arguments against raising the debt ceiling is the belief that hurting huge numbers of people is good
It doesn’t get enough attention.
He was set to testify about a PowerPoint outlining step-by-step Trump’s failed coup. Then Mark Meadows chickened out
He’s invoking privilege he doesn’t have.
America’s future: less democracy nationally, more democracy locally, plus violence and blood
My interview with Sea Change Radio’s Alex Wise.
Lose Roe, lose right to privacy
Abortion, birth control, Internet usage, same-sex marriage, sexual privacy and even healthcare privacy are on the line.