R.I.P.
The former San Francisco mayor served five terms in the U.S. Senate, where she fought for gun control and against torture and always knew how to cross the aisle.
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ALL TALK
A lot of Republicans are talking a big game in support of unionized employees, but they don’t walk the walk when it comes to rolling back corporate power.
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PROFILES IN COWARDICE
The House Speaker is going after President Biden for little more reason than to appease the far-right nuts in his caucus.
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MITCH DITCHED
The ex-football coach-turned-junior senator is holding up vital military promotions and brazenly thumbing his nose at the longest-serving Republican Senate leader.
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TAP DANCING TO THE POLLS
If the Virginia governor wants to be a GOP presidential contender, he needs his party to win this year’s state legislature elections. If not, he’s toast.
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THE ‘GOOD’ KIND OF PROPAGANDA
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ anti-woke crusade, fossil fuel industry billionaires, and a conservative firebrand’s take on American history are coming to the classroom.
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SUNSHINE ON JUSTICE
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has the power to provide transparency during the ex-president’s federal trial. Will he use it?
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2016 NEVER ENDS
The second-place presidential primary candidate shows how the GOP’s “Lock Her Up” obsession remains eternal.
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‘THINK OF THE CHILDREN’
Take Sarah Palin’s “hockey mom” populist schtick, gussy it up with 2023’s “wokeness” panic, and you’ve got a strikingly powerful presidential campaign surrogate.
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DESERT STORMS
Gov. Katie Hobbs stopped local prosecutors from treating abortion as a crime. But the fight has only just begun.