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Courts Hand Down Smashing Victories for Voting Rights Courts Hand Down Smashing Victories for Voting Rights
These are significant wins, across six states—but 15 other states still have restrictions in place for the fall elections.
Aug 11, 2016 / The Editors
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What Trump Supporters May Be Thinking What Trump Supporters May Be Thinking
A man who goes ballistic At trivial rebukes Is just the sort of person One wants in charge of nukes.
Aug 11, 2016 / Column / Calvin Trillin
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Is Brand New Congress the Future of Progressive Politics? Is Brand New Congress the Future of Progressive Politics?
The goal is audacious: harness the enthusiasm and fund-raising muscle of the Sanders campaign to elect an entirely new Congress committed to the same platform.
Aug 11, 2016 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan
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The Myth of Trump’s Alternative Worldview The Myth of Trump’s Alternative Worldview
His foreign policy isn’t an alternative to US empire. It’s a cruder rendition of it.
Aug 10, 2016 / John Feffer
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Neo-McCarthyite Kremlin-Baiting of Trump Continues to Prevent Urgent Policy Debates Neo-McCarthyite Kremlin-Baiting of Trump Continues to Prevent Urgent Policy Debates
While pro-Clinton “liberals” and others escalate their slurring of Trump as Putin’s “agent” and “puppet,” international developments vital to US interests are being ignored in this...
Aug 10, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen
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Donald Trump Spreads Economic Fairy Dust Donald Trump Spreads Economic Fairy Dust
He’s pushing the same old failures of Reaganomics: tax cuts for the rich and deregulation, along with nostalgia for an industrial era long gone.
Aug 10, 2016 / Jeff Madrick
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Paul Ryan Won His Primary, but He’s Still the GOP’s Fading Star Paul Ryan Won His Primary, but He’s Still the GOP’s Fading Star
The only time we hear from Ryan anymore is when Donald Trump talks about him.
Aug 9, 2016 / John Nichols
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Did Donald Trump Just Suggest Hillary Should Be Assassinated? Did Donald Trump Just Suggest Hillary Should Be Assassinated?
It’s not about what Trump truly meant, but what his supporters will hear.
Aug 9, 2016 / George Zornick
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Donald Trump Is Already Setting Up His Next Con Donald Trump Is Already Setting Up His Next Con
Trump’s lies about election rigging will do real damage to a Clinton presidency.
Aug 9, 2016 / Joan Walsh
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The Circus and This Year’s Presidential Election Have More in Common Than You Think The Circus and This Year’s Presidential Election Have More in Common Than You Think
Elephants, a ringleader who’s a walking Ponzi scheme, and insults flying left and right—welcome to the Greatest Show on Earth.
Aug 9, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt