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The history you did not know behind the push to make the District of Columbia a new state
Why is DC second-class? Racism, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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The Republican Party seems willing to absorb as many legislative losses as possible. Why?
The reason is as cunning as it is cynical, writes Claire Bond Potter
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Massacres are what happen when a republic solves its problems by militarizing itself
Boulder is the latest in a 20-year process.
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Liberals, leftists are united in believing in government. Everything else is negotiable
Jacobin imagines divisions where none exist, writes Magdi Semrau.
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Chuck Todd and the anti-moral press
NBC host will be where the action is even if he must invent it.
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Why is the president building bridges to the left, instead of the right? Because he must
The GOP's rhetoric of violence gives Joe Biden little choice.
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Chauvin's attorney is back on his bullshit
A version of the fraudulent "excited delirium" play, writes Lindsay Beyerstein
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Atlanta shooter’s claims—'sex addiction,' eliminating 'temptation,' Christian morality—do not matter
The truth is obvious if only we dare to see, says Mia Brett.
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'Cultural left' has gone mainstream
Compared to GOP king-lust, anti-racism looks all-American.
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Ignore centrist pundits puling over leftists
Issac J. Bailey reflects on the fight over marriage equality.
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Actually, McConnell has always been bad at his job, and nuking the filibuster will prove it
It didn't have to be this way.
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There's a growing body of evidence showing the Republican Party has a paramilitary wing
María Isabel Puerta Riera explains how we got here.