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Working-class Americans shouldn’t need four years of college to be paid more. They should just be paid more
Biden is breaking from the conventional wisdom.
Mask mandate judge made up law to reach desired outcome
Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s ruling is part of a long-term rightwing project to undermine the ability of the federal government to function.
Orrin Hatch, champion of revanchist values and father of judicial extremism, is dead
For all his work in making the nation worse, Donald Trump presented Hatch with the Presidential Medal of Freedom that year.
Libs of TikTok ruined lives with smears. Taylor Lorenz exposed its creator with journalism
The rightwingers want you to think they’re the same. Yeah, no.
Melissa Lucio, mother of 14 deemed unfit ‘good mother,’ faces punishment by death years after daughter’s deadly accident
Jurors at her trial now doubt her guilty verdict. Her execution is scheduled for April 27. All eyes are on Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Putin’s cronyism in Russia produced war crimes in Ukraine
To look tough back home, soldiers are murdering civilians.
Inequality makes oligarchy
Do we really have a political system by which everyone is treated equally and has an equal say in government? Don’t be naive.
America needs an internet version of Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Administration
Our kids deserve access.
The ‘sovereign nations’ of the American south are careening toward totalitarianism
They are moving to prevent people from leaving.
Effective speech isn’t free. It takes torrents of cash
We’re as free to speak as billionaires like Elon Musk want us to be.