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Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) thinks the “mere prospect” of Tlaib’s proposed congressional delegation is dangerous to...
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New agenda, says group ahead of nationwide marches on Saturday, is “a tangible declaration of how we will protect and defend...
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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office disputed an explosive story from BuzzFeed News as “not accurate” Friday...
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Trump met today with North Korea’s lead negotiator in denuclearization talks. Source: White House says second Trump-Kim summit...
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He somehow had the time to craft a Washington Post op-ed attacking H.R. 1, House Democrats’ flagship voting rights and election...
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“Merkley deserves a ton of credit for his leadership here. This is good, honest, careful work in response to cynicism, cruelty,...
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“It appears that they wanted to have it both ways—to separate children from their parents but deny them the full...
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Neoconservatives, the architects of the War on Terror, are the political version of Jason in Friday the 13th: You can never bank on...
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There’s one way, in the near term, to expose Beltway bellicosity on foreign affairs: Force Congress to publicly debate and vote on...
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A U.S. federal judge in Wisconsin on Thursday blocked a Republican-backed law that would limit early voting across the state to two...
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Acknowledging “a long road ahead” on the United Nations ambitious agenda, Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed on Tuesday “the...
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In the latest teacher strike in Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest school system, some 30,000 teachers walked off the job...
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It’s time to fracture the white lens through which people have framed, and attacked, the co-chairs. Source: A Vital, Vulnerable...
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In Syria, a suicide bomber struck a restaurant in the northern city of Manbij on Wednesday, killing 19 people. Source: US Troops Are...
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Jewish Voice for Peace is guided by a vision of justice, equality and freedom for all people. We unequivocally oppose Zionism because...
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The reality is that it is the US which is the most threatening and destabilizing force in the world today. It is US military...
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Palestine will launch a bid to become a full member of the United Nations, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on...
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The Department of Homeland Security may have separated “thousands” more children from their families than previously reported,...
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The issues and demands of the Yellow Vests suggest proven reforms that are clearly feasible, since they’ve worked in the past....
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As Nicolas Maduro begins his second term as president, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears hell-bent on toppling the Bolivarian...
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The new slate of Democratic judges have approved comprehensive revisions to Harris County’s bail system that could clear the way for...
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At his congressional hearing on Tuesday, Trump’s nominee to be the head of the Justice Department said that he had told the president...
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After years in the doldrums, the Greens have come roaring back all across northern Europe. Source: These Parties Are Fighting for the...
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Rep. Ilhan Omar is pushing back after being labeled a bigot by critics for two tweets, one about Sen. Lindsey Graham and the other...
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it has been revealed that the Integrity Initiative Twitter handle and some individuals associated with this program have been...
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A sickout by unpaid federal employees could bring the impasse—and their status as hostages to the president’s whim—to an...
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Climate engineering and weather warfare are ultimately one in the same. The ongoing atmospheric experiments taking place in our skies...
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Every day brings another sign that there is at last going to be a wide-open debate about American support for Israel in US politics,...
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Headlines matter. As studies have repeatedly shown, when it comes to reaching the general public, the words at the top of the page...
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Chaney’s conviction more than 30 years ago was based largely on the scientifically indefensible testimony of two forensic dentists...
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John Bolton threatens to bring on another endless war. Source: To Stop Bolton’s Fire and Fury, Fire...
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While the longest government shutdown in U.S. history continues, President Trump’s approval rating is down, and there are...
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Critics say there was little accountability when Republicans headed the investigation and its targets have been let off lightly...
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Emboldened by President Trump’s rhetoric, white supremacist groups have increased their distribution of flyers and banners in public...
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Cheered on by AIPAC and other pro-Israel lobbies, the US Congress is now leading Israel’s war on the BDS movement, Palestinians and...
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The government shutdown is putting further stress on a regulatory system already strained to the breaking point. Source: With the...
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“This is what immigration enforcement has come to in this country.” Source: He Was Born In Grand Rapids And Fought In Afghanistan,...
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In Cuba in January 2019, a Freedom Caravan of Rebel Army combatants commemorated the entry into Havana of Fidel and the rebel army on...
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The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, announced Thursday that it has sent Immanuel Christian 100 copies of A Day in the...
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Now his family is building bridges between police and the community, and connecting families affected by such violence. Source: Oscar...
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“This data suggests there is a reason why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets so much heat from conservatives—she and this...
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In this election season, we are witnessing more people speak about the strength of Israel’s democracy as a central issue. This comes...
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We feel it’s where we belong. Source: There’s a Good Reason Many Jewish Women Will Be Joining the Women’s March | The...
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With the Democratic takeover of the House or Representatives earlier this month, Waters becomes the first woman and first black...
read moreThe Mueller investigation, thanks to the snooping Obama and the FBI enabled, knows the content of every phone call, chat and email...
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The passage of Medicaid expansion in three deeply conservative states is evidence that a less partisan presentation of policy is...
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Barr’s mellow, wordy lawyer’s schtick was the perfect Trojan horse for all the bad policies with which he intends to infest the...
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If they know where their representatives stand, constituents can hold them accountable if they choose to prolong unpopular conflicts....
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Democrats on the Judiciary Committee seem to be looking right past red flags. Source: The Democrats’ capitulation to William Barr...
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An AIPAC-backed effort to make boycotting Israel — or even calling for a boycott of Israel — over its oppression of...
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Palestine is applying to be a full member of the United Nations, a move that could finally slow Israel’s politicide against...
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Californians want a publicly owned utility that’s reliable, affordable and willing to lead on climate change. Source: Public...
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Advocates and former detainees say it is normal for children held at the Berks Family Residential Center in Pennsylvania to have...
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In his latest effort to address allegations of sexism as he mulls another bid for the White House, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) met...
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What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down? Source: 10 Things We All Lose If...
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Another 12 health systems joined an organization aiming to lower the price of prescription drugs. The hope is to make generic drugs...
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When you get right down to it, there is very little difference between many Democratic policymakers and their Republican...
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Scott Warren offered food, water, and clothing to migrants on a deadly stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border. Now he’s facing twenty...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s assignment to the powerful House Financial Services Committee has triggered a fresh round of...
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The wire service conveniently omits that Trump’s pick for attorney general pardoned six officials for their role in the...
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Simply, what Michael Cohen has to do with Jerry Falwell, Jr. is this: a man named John Gauger is the Chief Information Officer for...
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One monstrosity in the Texas desert has been shuttered even as another one along the Florida coastline is expanding. Following the...
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How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit. Source: Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting...
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newly obtained documents reveal that the United States has also been training coalition military personnel from the United Arab...
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A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for the delay of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address...
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Depriving Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails of their basic rights is a “moral duty”, according to Israeli Public...
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In the racially divided city of St. Louis the chief prosecutor has embraced a controversial tool to hold police accountable:...
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The code of ethics for professional conference interpreters states that they “shall be bound by the strictest secrecy, which must be...
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MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff travels 70 feet below San Diego for a look at the cross-border smuggling tunnels Trump’s border...
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AOC’s tax proposal finds inspiration not in Karl Marx, but in mainstream American political philosophy. How we tax the rich depends...
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The New York Times loves NATO, but should you?Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the...
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If Graham is actually as bewildered as he says he is by black civil rights advocates’ low opinion of the GOP, perhaps his own...
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Ending a pregnancy without professional help has its risks, from medical complications to imprisonment. But the abortion methods...
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A filing in a Massachusetts lawsuit contains dozens of internal Purdue Pharma documents suggesting the family was far more involved...
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a California judge has issued a new ruling in how law enforcement is allowed to use, or not use, a suspect’s biometric features. In...
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The bank said in a blog post that women at the bank earn 71 percent of their male colleagues’ pay. Source: Citigroup Bravely...
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The country’s youngest party has united the left and right against Viktor Orban. Source: Hungary Finally Has an Opposition Worth a...
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This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we would do his memory justice by honoring all of his legacy. Not just the parts that make white...
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90 years after King was born, the racial wealth divide is actually growing — which drags down the entire economy Source: A...
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A report(pdf) by Oil Change International (OCI), which warns that—unless radical action on the scale of a Green New Deal is...
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Democrats, for good reason, vehemently oppose almost everything Trump proposes, but when he asks for a huge increase in military...
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According to an analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign of the latest data released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), ...
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Candidates gearing up for 2020 may be blazing new trails on domestic issues, but when it comes to engagement with Russia, they...
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Such a high tax rate is not unheard of and higher rates used to be the norm during a large portion of the 20th century because higher...
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On The View‘s Monday episode, Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory asked to condemn anti-semitic comments made by...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech at the American University in Cairo began with his acknowledgement that he views the...
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The bold agenda being pushed by lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “is not a litany of progressive issues; it’s...
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While Paygo might at first glance seem like a reasonable commitment to “fiscal responsibility,” it’s really just another obstacle,...
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The Los Angeles teachers’ strike isn’t all about wages. At its core, the strike is a fight against the privatization of...
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In addition to imposing new sanctions against Syria, the Senate bill contains the Combating BDS Act, which would provide legal cover...
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Republican pals of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are dishing to conservative outlet The Washington Examiner’s David...
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I was struck by the recent New York Times story about the FBI opening a counterintelligence investigation into President Trump after...
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Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed package to reopen the federal government for a second time in as many weeks on Tuesday....
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A day after her Brexit plan suffered the worst parliamentary defeat in modern British political history, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa...
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On January 3, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced HR 1, a bill to make vital, high-priority improvements to our...
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Barr hasn’t a clue about the criminal justice system of 2019, as Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris showed. Source: Cory...
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie doesn’t just have his knives out for Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner — he also has unkind words...
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Private forms of corporate ownership are “simply a legal fiction.”* The economic requirements of the modern corporation no longer...
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Even as dozens of smaller counties join President Trump’s call for sheriffs to help with deportations at local jails, larger urban...
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The Obama administration said no when T-Mobile tried to merge with Sprint, because having the third- and fourth-biggest cellphone...
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