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To accommodate West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, Democratic leadership agreed to legislation streamlining permits for the often-stalled Mountain Valley Pipeline and removing jurisdiction from a court that keeps ruling against the project.
After Kansas voters defeated an anti-abortion amendment in a landslide, analysts are now sifting through that happy, massive Republican miscalculation to consider an unexpected new political reality for abortion and women's rights.
Neoliberalism advocates markets over governments and one need only recall the international financial disasters of 2008 to see where this kind of hierarchy leads and will lead again if we allow it.
Tina Peters continues to use the Trump playbook. She lost her primary by a wide margin, spent campaign money for a recount that confirmed her loss and now continues to fund raise as a professional victim.
Ronald Reagan is gone, but his attacks on working class people roll on. Now they’re being carried on by Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, and all the rest of the multimillionaire GOP senators.
Alex Jones is just one example of the people who prey on others through lies, harassment, bullying and subterfuge and who do so because they are not competent enough to operate out in the open with the rest of us.
Republicans in Pennsylvania attacked a law, that they themselves had previously supported, in an attempt to undermine mail-in voting in the state. That attack has now failed.
The nursing homes industry has quietly developed what consumer attorneys and patient advocates say is a pernicious strategy of pursuing family and friends of patients despite federal law that was enacted to protect them from debt collection.
Passage of the constitutional amendment would have nullified the Kansas Supreme Court ruling and given the Legislature the authority to pass any kind of abortion restriction, without exceptions for rape, incest or a patient’s health.
Elizabeth Weller could not receive the medical care she needed for a failing pregnancy because of a Texas law that banned abortion after six weeks.
The right wing think tank Family Research Council's action of becoming a church allows it to hide large donations as well as expenditures to contractors for political activity.
GOP talking points continually try to blame inflation in the US on the Biden administration, ignoring that this is an international problem, not a US policy issue.
Many people think manufactured homes are poorly built, even though these structures, unlike site-built houses, have had to meet federal safety standards since 1976.
Two artists see the potential to bring theatrical disciplines to public meetings to better define the public’s role and make its participation more meaningful.
Nichelle Nichols almost left Star Trek during the original seasons due to racist harassment at the studio. But a fan, Dr. Martin Luther King, saying that Star Trek was the only TV show he approved of—because of her role—convinced her to stay.
If the leaders of the new, Forward Party accomplish their goal, the party will attract many voters who no longer identify as Democrats or Republicans and it will become a force for moderation—and an institution—in U.S. electoral politics.
