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If ‘secularists’ are waging war on Christmas, where does that leave the Supreme Court? It said Christmas trees are secular
They actually serve Christian hegemony in America.
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Revelations by the House Select Committee risk drawing attention away from GOP legislators who aided and abetted a failed coup
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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What would John Dewey think of today’s ‘education reform’?
He believed the function of school was not to turn out students as quality products, but to cultivate individual creativity and, most importantly, incubate citizens capable of life-long learning.
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Why do the storytellers whitewash Fox even when Fox becomes the story?
Three Fox hosts contacted Mark Meadows during the 1/6 insurrection. Jeremy Littau thinks that should change how the press does news.
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Will the Democrats learn? When you think you're winning against bullshit, you’re actually losing
On covid, the Republicans are swiftboating Biden.
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We’re deep into a cycle of political time that began with Ronald Reagan. It’s stinking and corrupt. When will it break?
Elizabeth F. Cohen: “Immigration is always a good litmus test.”
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The president’s low approval is democracy working. Voters are holding him accountable
The problem is a Republican Party that's not promising to do more to fight the covid pandemic. It's promising to do less.
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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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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 mean old man of the GOP is dead
Bob Dole 1923-2021.