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In their blind loyalty to their mega-donors, Republicans' fixation on giant tax cuts for billionaires has created a revenue problem.
"The ideas spouted by the current crop of Republican elected officials, including their loathing of undocumented immigrants, frighten and appall me."
Not one of the extremists currently holding office in our Congress qualifies to do so. Yet here they are, grinding the country to a halt.
Trump must have choked on his Big Mac watching as another of his former attorneys copped a plea deal, agreeing to testify against him.
The simple fact is that, were it not for slavery, white supremacy, and the legacy of “scientific racism,” America would have had a national, single-payer healthcare system in 1915.
Pfizer is treating Paxlovid like a Prada handbag; a luxury for the few rather than a treatment for the many.
A behind-the-scenes pressure campaign to shore up support for Jim Jordan as Speaker, which included anonymous threats to at least one member of Congress, appears to have backfired.
Here are three of the most revealing elements of the ongoing speaker kerfuffle, and how political science can help people understand them.
No person who loves their country and takes its security seriously could ever even remotely consider voting for Jim Jordan, a preposterous figure whose rise portends a national catastrophe every bit as much as Trump’s did.
The right wing faces crises with incompetence or cynical exploitation: Bush and Hurricane Katrina; Netanyahu and Gaza; Trump and Covid, or tossing paper towels at hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.
As we come to another contentious election cycle, understanding dark money will become increasingly important. Here are some of the basics.
It is important to understand the distinctions between patriotism and nationalism, especially since there has been intentional misuse and hijacking of both by the far right.
Russia is close to having the upper hand Ukraine because of Putin’s ability to get American Republican politicians to mouth his talking points and propaganda.
The Hamas-Israel violence, present and past, are vast and sprawling horrors that have been metastasizing for thousands of years. How can any of us claim we’re capable of making sense out of it, let alone sum it up in a few words?
Jim Jordan does not even qualify for Congress, much less Speaker. He was all in on the subversive plot to seize an unearned second term for the defeated president by invalidating millions of legitimate American votes.
News media interested in crime—its impact on human beings, on society, its cost to the economy—would be interested in wage theft, the more than $50 billion a year stolen from workers in this country.
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