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With passage of funding for ICE and no limits on either ICE behavior or Trump’s slush fund, Republicans cave to Trump yet again.
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Debbie Downer
The sleazy fintech bro Republican running in her home district is as beatable as they come. So why is former DNC chair Wasserman Schultz carpetbagging in a historically Black district?
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The 2024 DNC autopsy reveals a party unable to process its past, or suggest a future.
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Indiana’s Private Equity Power Play
The mother lode of utility buyouts just landed on Hoosiers’ doorstep. Regulators have no say over whether the deal goes through.
The Internet and Its Discontents
One young woman claims to know what is wrong with girls today: They need to turn to the right.
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Seven Republicans have joined every House Democrat to bring pro-union legislation to the floor next week.
Senate Democrats Threaten to Punt FISA Over Pulte Appointment
President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence is roiling an emerging bipartisan extension of warrantless spying.
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Organized Money: Why Farmers and Filmmakers Both Face Monopoly
Monopoly power has penetrated nearly every sector of commerce.
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Take This Data Center and Shove It
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Corporations and the Crisis of Care
The U.S. suffers from a mass exodus of primary care doctors, as medical practice is dictated by corporate masters at the expense of physicians and patients.
Archiving Joy
At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.
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Health care affordability depends on access to care and the true cost of care, not just insurance premiums.
We Are Shocked—Shocked—to Find War Criminals at the Israel Day Parade
A brief history of New York liberals’ efforts to downplay, ignore, and censor the terrifying ideology of Israel’s radical right
The Return of the Dixiecrat South
In the pre-1960s South, which Supreme Court Republicans have just brought back from the dead, Black citizens have no voice in federal lawmaking.
Little Country, Big Oil
Guyana has emerged as an oil and gas powerhouse in recent years. How do U.S. and corporate interests complicate the country’s changing conditions?
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The Republican Senate Chickens Out
With passage of funding for ICE and no limits on either ICE behavior or Trump’s slush fund, Republicans cave to Trump yet again.
How a Pro-Worker Bill May Advance in the House
Seven Republicans have joined every House Democrat to bring pro-union legislation to the floor next week.
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Archiving Joy
At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.
