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If last week’s carve-out to the filibuster rule can be done to raise the debt ceiling, it can be done to save democracy, too
Anoa Changa: the point of no return is fast approaching.
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Bob Dole's death inspired nostalgia among liberals for a time in politics that never was
It’s sounds nice, but it’s not true.
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Why didn't the system ever hold Jeffrey Epstein to account? Because he was the system
The ongoing trial of Epstein's partner Ghislaine Maxwell reminds us it’s impossible to remove the politics of race and class from the equation.
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Behind Republican arguments against raising the debt ceiling is the belief that hurting huge numbers of people is good
It doesn't get enough attention.
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He was set to testify about a PowerPoint outlining step-by-step Trump’s failed coup. Then Mark Meadows chickened out
He’s invoking privilege he doesn’t have.
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America's future: less democracy nationally, more democracy locally, plus violence and blood
My interview with Sea Change Radio's Alex Wise.
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Lose Roe, lose right to privacy
Abortion, birth control, Internet usage, same-sex marriage, sexual privacy and even healthcare privacy are on the line.
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The good news is we’re on the cusp of a new way of ordering the American polity. The bad news? We could fall short
Thomas Zimmer: Multiracial democracy will be expanded or aborted.
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The midterms will be decided by swing voters ready to reward the GOP for trying to kill them
Why democracy is its own worst enemy.
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History doesn't care if the GOP is on the wrong side
Progress is a consequence of politics.
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The mean old man of the GOP is dead
Bob Dole 1923-2021.
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Democracy isn't 'backsliding.' Equality is
Equality has been presumed in the word 'democracy' since the postwar era. We may not be able to presume that much longer.