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The dark money flowing into the Democratic primary pitting entrenched 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette against progressive insurgent Melat Kiros has helped energize Kiros’s campaign. Another ...
Oversight Democrats should expose how Trump’s bastardization of USPS has hurt the American people—and present a more reliable alternative.
Trump is trying every possible short-term trick to cut diesel prices. None of it will work; he might as well command the tide to recede.
Opinion
California Democrats—but Not Their Elected Representatives—Back the Billionaire Wealth Tax
Polls show overwhelming rank-and-file support, but Gavin Newsom’s opposition has trickled down to nearly every elected official.
As Donald Trump’s support collapses, Republican candidates are whipsawed between distancing themselves from their albatross president and keeping faith with the MAGA hard core. As this straddle ...
The combination of farm-state economic woes and Democrats speaking the language of working-class people has residents saying the state is ‘getting purple.’ Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob ...
The older forms of administrative defiance all left a record to fight over: evidence ignored, suppressed, disputed. The architecture of ignorance leaves nothing to fight over, because the evidence ...
A new report details how the judiciary has become more corporate over the past few decades—and names the specific judges who are most responsible.
The mainstream media dutifully followed suit. Never mind that corporate profits were soaring, or that companies were using new techniques to personalize prices and even turning over their pricing ...
The Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River is on the border between Nevada and Arizona. Credit: Rafael Ciaramicoli/iStock The California Gold Rush was in full swing in 1852 when ...
Hasan Piker speaks at a campaign rally for Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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