McConnell’s January 6 Commission Antics Are an Admission of GOP Guilt

Republicans got all the concessions they asked for with the insurrection commission bill, yet McConnell wants…

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Yes, You Should Be Watching the Impeachment Trial Live

On Wednesday afternoon, the House impeachment managers laid out the series of tweets, speeches, and interviews…

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Joe Biden Wants You to Just Calm the Heck Down

His success consistently comes from turning down the temperature. Remember, back in the Obama days, this old…

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LaTosha Brown Is Only Getting Started

The Black Voters Matter co-founder is organizing voters ahead of Georgia’s Senate runoffs, but her work…

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How My Congressman Helped Trump Attempt a Coup

And why that’s somehow even more offensive than Trump himself. Occasionally, out of some vestigial reflex, I…

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Your Most Paranoid Questions About Trump’s Refusal to Concede, Answered

Joe Biden will become president on January 20, 2021. Donald Trump’s refusal to concede and accept the…

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Democrats Don’t Deserve Latino Votes Just Because They’re the Less Racist Party

The day after the election, I woke up at 4 a.m. to do my first live…

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Stop Scapegoating Donald Trump

The president didn’t get us into this mess on his own— he had enablers at every…

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There Was a Party Outside Joe Biden’s Childhood Home Yesterday

Biden’s agitprop version of the city might be a bit outdated — Scranton now counts higher…

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Kamala Harris Is Our Symbol of a Better Future

With our rights in the crosshairs, the vice president-elect is exactly the kind of feminist figurehead…

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Reliving Election Night 2016, Through FiveThirtyEight’s Live Blog

9:11 a.m. Clare Malone greets us with “Welcome to the big show,” and a reminder that…

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We Are on the Verge of Transforming From an ‘I’ Society to a ‘We’ Society

GEN: What are the most significant parallels between the Gilded Age and today? Robert Putnam: Great…

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