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It’s gotten so absurd that a reporter spoke with a woman at a Trump rally sporting a crucifix and tee-shirt that said “Hang Joe Biden For Treason.” She essentially said Jesus would watch the execution.
It's one thing for corporations to pass reasonable increased costs to consumers. It's another for them to line their coffers by exploiting Americans who are just trying to get by.
No matter what nonsense Trump says, his fans cheer—because they are a cult. This election is about how many there are of them, and how many there are of us, and who will turn out and vote.
Though the Constitution does not mention the word “abortion,” several of the Amendments should be interpreted to protect a woman’s right to have one.
There were just over 110,000 Republicans who turned out for the Iowa caucus. Nearly half of them weren’t Trump's. What does that tell you about his “ties” to his voters?
It is high time the vaunted Fourth Estate stopped treating this election cycle like some sort of horse race, calling out positions and issuing prognostications to fill air time and column inches.
We are blessed as a nation that Martin Luther King Jr. walked among us for 39 years, exhorting his fellow citizens to live up to the nation’s founding principle that all men are created equal.
If America is ever to become a pluralistic, multiracial democratic republic we must come to terms with racism and white privilege.
The facts of history are sometimes brutal and hard to confront. That our former president should use the same terms as one of the true monsters of that history is something that should make us all cringe.
The Koch network has gotten behind Nikki Haley in a big way, having already conducted interviews with 6 million Republican voters, and will use that data to formulate strategy.
The fact that the Disqualification Rule of the 14 Amendment has not been previously applied to a presidential candidate does not diminish the materiality or clarity of the constitutional mandate.
“Selling out” evokes a widespread fear that anyone who pursues success will corrupt both their morality and their community. Some, too many, politicians and billionaires seem to be able to suppress this concern.
On-going lawsuits against data brokers reveal just how non-existent our privacy has become. And AI has only made it worse.
In the Republican debate Wednesday night, Haley and DeSantis tossed around Reagan-era talking points that most people don't understand, so here’s a handy guide to translate Republican-gibberish into plain English.
Trump is threatening to create a perfect world for himself, in which he will be allowed to do whatever he wants to do, no matter if it is legal or illegal, without suffering consequences.
Our job as a voter isn’t just marking a ballot once every couple of years. We have a lot more responsibility than that.