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Don’t dismiss McConnell’s ‘warning’ to corporations
It reflects larger, historical forces at work.
The politics of ‘white’ Latinx voters
The Democratic Party isn’t getting it.
No, Dems are not trying to cut taxes on the rich
Lifting the SALT cap is part of making taxes progressive.
‘Vaccine passports,’ or something like them, are a common feature in American history
This is a far cry from fascism or tyranny, writes Mia Brett.
Too many non-religious liberals are magnifying the preferred worldview of religious zealots
Secularization is not the absence of religion.
Joe Biden will never look like a radical
We are seeing the revival of economics as statecraft.
Facing a fascist GOP, a big business lobby finds that liberals are more trustworthy
US Chamber of Commerce seems ready to appease Biden.
Are the Republicans really going to say no to $4 trillion in public investment? Yeah, probably
You’d think Mitch McConnell would be smarter.
Glenn Greenwald appears to believe there’s a constitutional right to PayPal. That’s weird
A Pulitzer winner ought to know better, writes Lindsay Beyerstein
For Republicans in Georgia, the problem was never election insecurity. It was the voters themselves
Anti-democratic impulses are dangerous, writes Anthony Michael Kreis.