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The Long Prologue to the Capitol Hill Riot
During the past year, Portland, Oregon, has been the site of frequent public demonstrations by right-wing extremist groups. There have…
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Trump’s Financial Troubles May Be Just Beginning
In Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” someone asks Mike Campbell, the troubled Scottish war veteran who is engaged to…
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The Bitter Fruits of Trump’s White-Power Presidency
The spectacular violence in the Capitol on January 6th was the outcome of Donald Trump’s yearslong dalliance with the white-supremacist…
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Trump Can’t Be Allowed to Escape Justice Yet Again
Donald Trump and his dwindling band of loyalists are planning “a defiant final week” in office. Citing sources familiar with…
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How Congressional Republicans Could Sabotage the Counting of Electoral Votes
Donald Trump has regularly teased incriminating “tapes” of people whom he wanted to discredit; those have never materialized, but we…
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The Real Republican Radicals
There have been two major political developments in the final, post-election act of the Trump Presidency—each interesting on its own,…
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The Next Big Challenge: Trump-Proofing the Presidency
With just three weeks left until the Inauguration of Joe Biden, the end of Donald Trump’s Presidency is firmly in…
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Trump Directs His Wrecking Ball at the COVID-19 Relief Bill and Mitch McConnell
Until Tuesday evening, Donald Trump spent a week largely out of the public eye. After the Supreme Court torpedoed his…
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The New COVID-19 Relief Package Is Flawed but Essential
Speaking on the Senate floor on Sunday, Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader, said that the new COVID-19 spending bill that…
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A Brazen Republican Power Play Is Blocking Essential COVID-19 Relief
Is it any wonder that so many people have lost faith in organized politics? After a week in which the…
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