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Trump team aims to drop race, sexual orientation, migrants from census
The Trump administration proposed major changes Wednesday to the decennial census, calling for elimination of questions on race, ethnicity…
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This Could Be the Biggest Issue of 2027. Dems Are Split on It.
Democrats need a unified AI plan. Instead, they have a bunch of competing proposals.
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Trump, 80, Spotted With New Mystery Bruises on His Arm
President Trump was sporting new bruises during a Labor Day golf trip.
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Trump Moves to Make It Easier to Bribe Public Officials
Donald Trump wants to roll back a key Security and Exchange Commission rule.
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Why Trump’s Angry New Tirade at Canada Is About to Backfire On Him
Trump’s latest threats to punish Canada could hurt a lot of American workers—including in states with big races this fall—even as they…
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Midterm elections head into the home stretch as candidates hit Labor Day events
Troy Jackson was a longtime labor activist and logger before he unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. On…
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How Decades of Privatization Unleashed Trump’s Warmongering
Two new books illuminate how U.S. foreign policy became vulnerable to unchecked militarism and flagrant corruption.
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This Labor Day: Darkness in Washington, but Sunshine Across America
Countering the Trump administration’s hostility to labor has been a string of historic and sometimes surprising wins in blue cities,…
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They Wanted Me for My Blackness. Then the Calls Stopped.
The year 2020 changed everything—or so we thought.
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Appeals court maintains blockade on DHS using database to check state voter rolls
A federal appeals court has ruled to keep in place a lower court blockade on the Department of Homeland Security using its SAVE database…
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How to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker
The media’s fixation on this twitch streamer few voters have heard of should not be that difficult an obstacle to overcome.
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Ex-Trump Labor Secretary Went to Strip Club on Taxpayers’ Dime
Lori Chavez-DeRemer also pressured her staff to drink on the job with her, an inspector general report found.
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Gloria Steinem’s Life Between Art and Activism
Steinem faced a problem familiar to many activist writers: how to live according to your political principles without sacrificing your…
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Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Could Hurt This Overlooked Voting Bloc
This is what Republican voter disenfranchisement looks like.
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Fox News Isolated Maria Bartiromo for Weeks Before Firing Her
Bartiromo’s own staff was forbidden from speaking to her.
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Trump Team Turns Their Horrific Deportation Policy Into a Video Game
People can pretend to arrest immigrants in the new White House video game.
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Donald Trump Has No Idea of the Tidal Wave That’s Coming for Him
There are three groups of voters who matter in this election, and each of them is going to punish the president severely.
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Pentagon Mysteriously Pulls Hegseth’s Testosterone Screening Memo
It’s not clear what’s happening with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s mandatory testosterone screening for troops.
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Walmart and Target Thought It Was a Good Idea to Sell Nazi Costume
The mega retailers pulled the costume off their websites after backlash.
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Widow of Airman Killed in Iran War Says She Was Denied Benefits
Libby Klinner claims Trump’s “it’s not a war” excuse is hurting families like hers.
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Kremlin: Germany taking path of escalation over Leipzig drone affair
The Kremlin has accused Germany of pursuing a course of escalation following threats of sanctions over the unexploded explosive drone…
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Republican Scrubs Trump From Website After Winning Primary
“I find the defendant’s evidence simply not credible,” Ellis said at the time. “Agents pushed, shoved, tackled protesters, pointed guns at…
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Hunter Biden says his father's motorcade showed up at his drug den -- twice
Recovering addict Hunter Biden said his father would visit him at his crack den apartment in Washington to try to help him escape his…
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Whistleblower says USPS defied court to push 'untested' portal for Trump mail voting order
The U.S. Postal Service is rushing to implement President Trump’s new rules for mail ballots — despite a court order barring it from doing…