For Mitch McConnell, every avenue for progress looks blocked.
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Kushner Is at the Heart of Every Issue Related to the Russia Story
No one other than Michael Flynn is as central to the question of collusion.
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How Cash-Strapped Local Governments Target the Poor
Struggling cities are increasingly relying on steep fines and penalties that take a toll on those who can least afford them.
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Republicanism Used to Signal Education and Status
Republicanism no longer signals education and status, but nearly the opposite.
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Trump’s Inner Circle Met With No Ordinary Russian Lawyer
The headlines don’t explain who Natalia Veselnitskaya actually is or who she represents.
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House Freedom Caucus Approaches a Reckoning
Before long, they will be jammed up on health care, government funding, and the debt ceiling.
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Hobby Lobby Meets Indiana Jones
How stolen art fuels Middle Eastern terrorism.
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Forget a Higher Minimum Wage—Here’s a Better Way to Help American Workers
A federal job guarantee would reinvigorate American infrastructure and ensure that no workers go home in poverty.
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Anti-Monopoly Is the Good Nostalgia
If nostalgia for a bygone America won Trump the presidency, the Democrats need an answer.
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Patriotism in the Era of Trump
‘America is not some fragile thing…We are boisterous and diverse and full of energy, perpetually young in spirit.’
