Joe Biden

Fascist? Authoritarian? Sorta Russian? Whatever you call it, the Republicans don’t want legitimate authority, only power

By Rod Graham / January 19, 2022 /

People often confuse the terms power and authority.

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The leaders of the Democratic Party must be honest about the real effects of immigration

By Rod Graham / January 11, 2022 /

Everyone will not gain today, even if everyone may gain tomorrow.

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This is how the Republicans are whitewashing the J6 insurrection out of existence

By John Stoehr / January 7, 2022 /

And how the Big Lie became so easy to believe.

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Enough already! Spend the money to vaccinate the world

By Noah Berlatsky / January 5, 2022 /

The United States can’t protect the public health of its residents without protecting the public health of everyone else.

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The United States government was caught spying on American journalists. Does anyone care?

By Richard Sudan / January 4, 2022 /

Increasing evidence of the apparatus of the state being levied against reporters should surely lead to outcry from sensible people.

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Let them eat debt

By Noah Berlatsky / December 28, 2021 /

That canceling student debt would be a massive transfer payment is a statement that the government should do more for average families.

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In politics, a lie is true if no one opposes it. That’s why Democrats struggle. They must create ‘an infrastructure of democracy’ 

By John Stoehr / December 22, 2021 /

There’s no alternative for people vulnerable to propaganda.

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When will President Joe Biden stop pissing on migrants?

By Richard Sudan / December 22, 2021 /

But the responsibility doesn’t just rest on the shoulders of the government. Americans need to demand it.

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We have now entered the ‘Hunger Games’-era of American history. Does Joe Manchin care?

By John Stoehr / December 20, 2021 /

Monique Judge: “This is some weird power play”

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Revelations by the House Select Committee risk drawing attention away from GOP legislators who aided and abetted a failed coup

By Lindsay Beyerstein / December 16, 2021 /

January 6 was one part of a coup attempt planned out in the open. Its procedural component was widely reported in the weeks beforehand.

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