What A Day

Gun Control Deals N' Roses

13 Jun 2022

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Protesters in hundreds of cities around the country rallied against gun violence, last weekend. And on Sunday, a bipartisan group of Senators announce...

Live From DC It's January 6th!

10 Jun 2022

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Last night was the first of several public hearings by the January 6th House committee, with the purpose to get the insurrection and the bigger effort...

Don't Touch That Dial, The Coup Hearing Is On

09 Jun 2022

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The January 6th House committee finally begins its hearings tonight. The committee intends to lay out what happened on the day of the insurrection, th...

Achy Breaky World Economy

08 Jun 2022

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Congressmembers yesterday and today are hearing from the family members of the victims of recent mass shootings across the country. They’re there to...

Can Austin City Limit Abortion Criminalization?

07 Jun 2022

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As abortion access continues to decline on the local level, lawmakers and advocates across the country are devising new ways to protect abortion acces...

Another Weekend Of Gun Violence In America

06 Jun 2022

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There were at least five mass shootings this weekend in a matter of 27 hours, according to the Gun Violence Archive. This slate of recent mass shootin...

Don't Rainbow-Wash On My Parade

03 Jun 2022

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June is Pride Month, the unfortunate time when many corporations claim they support LGBTQ+ people, but also support politicians who actively work agai...

The Depp-Heard Verdict And Its Social Impact

02 Jun 2022

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A jury found that both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were liable for defamation in their lawsuits against each other. But the jury awarded significantly...

The Life And Legacy Of George Floyd

01 Jun 2022

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The first of several funeral services started for the victims killed by a gunman at a school in Uvalde, Texas. And over the weekend, the Justice Depar...

The Police Response To The Uvalde Shooting

27 May 2022

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Parents and other community members in Uvalde, Texas, are criticizing local police for its handling of the Robb Elementary School shooting where 21 pe...

Texas Mourns The Children Killed At Robb Elementary School

26 May 2022

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Officials have not confirmed all the identities of the 21 victims – nearly all children – of the Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas...

Another Deadly Shooting At An American Elementary School

25 May 2022

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A gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. Officials say they expect the death toll...

Don't Believe Every COVID Count You Read

24 May 2022

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COVID cases are rising again in the U.S. In just the past month alone, the average number of confirmed cases has doubled according to the CDC. But wit...

Title 42 Won't Be 86'd

23 May 2022

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A federal judge ruled that the Biden administration could not end a pandemic-related border restriction program known as Title 42. It was set to expir...

Panic! At The New York Redistrict

20 May 2022

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Oklahoma’s legislature passed the country’s strictest abortion bill. The ban goes further than Texas’ abortion law, and if signed by Republican ...

Primary Go Round

19 May 2022

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Following Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary elections, Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. And State Sena...

An Abortion Access Win For Michigan

18 May 2022

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President Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, yesterday to speak with the families of victims of the white supremacist mass shooting, as well as othe...

Racism Fueled Buffalo's Mass Shooting

17 May 2022

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Federal officials are investigating Saturday’s shooting in Buffalo, New York, as both a hate crime and “racially-motivated violent extremism.” T...

Rallying for Reproductive Rights

16 May 2022

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A white gunman killed 10 people and injured three others on Saturday at a grocery store in a historically Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. Loc...

We Need To Talk About Kevin McCarthy

13 May 2022

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The January 6th commission issued subpoenas to five Republican Congressmembers including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in order to gain informa...

A Failed Attempt To Codify Roe with Sen Kirsten Gillibrand

12 May 2022

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The Senate failed to pass a bill on Wednesday that would effectively codify the right to an abortion. The bill, called, “The Women’s Health Protec...

How Data Tracking Could Be Used To Prosecute Abortion

11 May 2022

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As the Supreme Court considers overturning or scaling back Roe, online privacy and pro-choice advocates are concerned about how police might use data ...

Voters Could Protect Abortion Rights In Michigan

10 May 2022

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Michigan has a 1931 law on the books that criminalizes abortion. That law has not been enforced since 1973 when Roe v Wade was decided, but it hasn’...

How Pro-Life Becomes Pro-Incarceration

09 May 2022

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If Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion would become illegal in at least 26 states. That means two main things for people who hope to terminate a pregn...

Providing Abortions In Uncertain Times

06 May 2022

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Abortion providers and advocates in several states have been scrambling to figure out how to process the fall out of the Supreme Court leak, what to t...

Reactions To What Could Be The End Of Roe

05 May 2022

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Abortion providers across the country are rushing to figure out their next steps in light of this week’s news about abortion and the Supreme Court. ...

Imagining A World Without Roe

04 May 2022

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said that the leaked draft majority opinion on overturning abortion rights is authentic and that “it does n...

SCOTUS Seems Poised to Overturn Roe V. Wade

03 May 2022

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Politico has obtained what is says are leaked documents showing the Supreme Court is poised to strike down the constitutional right to abortion. In a ...

Off-Peak Pandemic

02 May 2022

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The current COVID wave in the U.S. is relatively mild considering what we’ve seen in the past. For instance, recent data from Johns Hopkins Universi...

FDA Says Last Call For Menthol

29 Apr 2022

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Moderna said on Thursday that they were asking the FDA for emergency use authorization for their vaccine for children under 6. If granted, they would ...

Reckoning With Racist Policing in Minneapolis

28 Apr 2022

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The Minnesota Department of Human Rights found that Minneapolis and the city’s police department engaged in a pattern or practice of race discrimina...

Harvard Faces Its Legacy Of Slavery

27 Apr 2022

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Harvard University pledged $100 million to redress its ties to slavery. In an email on Tuesday, the school’s president said that the university bore...

Musk Rules Everything Around Me

26 Apr 2022

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Elon Musk reached a deal with Twitter on Monday to take over the company for roughly $44 billion. Mike Isaac, a tech reporter for the New York Times, ...

Delete Your Shared Netflix Account

25 Apr 2022

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The Supreme Court is in session this week and will hear two cases that could have a big impact. The first will be heard today and could affect our Fir...

The Tragic Kingdom Of Ron DeSantis

22 Apr 2022

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The GOP-led Florida state legislature gave the final stamps of approval to a pair of proposals on Thursday. The first redraws Florida’s Congressiona...

Run For Something (You Better Clerk)

21 Apr 2022

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Russia gave Ukrainian forces in Mariupol an ultimatum earlier this week: surrender or die. Russian-backed separatists said only five people surrendere...

Puff Puff Pass Laws Decriminalizing Weed

20 Apr 2022

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Hours after a federal judge in Florida overturned the CDC’s mask mandate for public transportation, airlines like Delta and United made masks option...

Maskers, Prepare For Takeoff

19 Apr 2022

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A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, voided the nationwide travel mask mandate on Monday. Last week, the CDC extended that mask mandate for commercial f...

South Carolina Sets An Execution By Firing Squad

18 Apr 2022

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The city of Mariupol has been one of the worst sites of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While Ukrainian forces have held their ground, reports are now...

Defending Trans Youth in Alabama

15 Apr 2022

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Alabama became the first state to criminalize the act of providing gender-affirming medical care to trans youth, last week. The bill makes it a felony...

The War On Roe in Oklahoma

14 Apr 2022

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New York Police arrested a suspect in relation to Tuesday’s mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway. Frank James was apprehended in Manhattan and is accu...

A Mass Shooting On An NYC Subway Train

13 Apr 2022

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A mass shooting took place on a New York City subway train, Tuesday morning. According to New York’s Fire Department, 10 people were shot and, mirac...

Give Up The Ghost Guns

12 Apr 2022

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President Biden announced a new rule that would prohibit the unregulated online sale of “ghost guns,” or firearms that you can self-assemble from ...

How A Miscarriage In Texas Led To A Murder Charge

11 Apr 2022

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Texas authorities arrested 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera, last week, on murder charges for what the local sheriff’s office described as a “self-indu...

Hot Takes On The New IPCC Report

08 Apr 2022

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice on Thursday, and the first former public defender ...

Vaccine Makeover: Fall Edition with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

07 Apr 2022

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The Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Amir Locke earlier this year will not face any criminal charges. Locke was a 22-year-old Black man ...

Not Ready, Not Set, Redistricting

06 Apr 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an emotional address to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday after his visit to Bucha. In his sp...

Same-Day Solidarity At Amazon with Chris Smalls

05 Apr 2022

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Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to form the company’s first union in the U.S. last Friday, making a historic win for labo...

Joe Time Like The Present To Forgive Student Loans

04 Apr 2022

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Signs of a massacre in Bucha, a town near Kyiv, have intensified calls for investigations into possible war crimes by Russia. Footage and photographs ...

BA.2 The Bone

31 Mar 2022

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The Biden administration will reportedly end its use of Title 42 by late May. The policy effectively acted as a suspension of the legal asylum process...

Life As A Ukrainian Refugee, Part II

30 Mar 2022

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Over 3.9 million people have fled Ukraine and become refugees since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, according to the United Nations. About 2....

Ginni Thomas The Text Engine

29 Mar 2022

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The House select committee investigating the insurrection is reportedly soon going to seek an interview with Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Cour...

The Fight For Trans Liberation Is Everyone's Fight with Raquel Willis

28 Mar 2022

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On Saturday, President Biden gave a speech from Warsaw, Poland, where he talked about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But at one point, he briefly spo...

Defense Against DeSantis

25 Mar 2022

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President Biden spoke in Brussels after meeting with European allies on Thursday, and announced that the U.S. would commit more than $1 billion in hum...

Life As A Ukrainian Refugee

24 Mar 2022

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced her second day of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday during her Supreme Court confirmation h...

Healthcare Is Under Attack In Ukraine

23 Mar 2022

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Tuesday was the second day of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings. She faced questions from senators on the Judiciar...

The Impact Of Texas's Abortion Ban, Six Months In

22 Mar 2022

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Ukraine rejected Russia’s demand that soldiers surrender the city of Mariupol, on Monday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying in part...

Conservatives Dig Deep To Oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson

21 Mar 2022

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Russia's attacks on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol continued through the weekend, with missiles striking an art school where 400 people had taken shel...

Week Two of Teachers Striking In Minneapolis

18 Mar 2022

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Teachers in the Minneapolis Public School district are in the second week of their strike, led by The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59. Teq...

Zelensky's Address To Congress And The View From Lviv

17 Mar 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed U.S. Congress on Wednesday to ask for a number of things including a no-fly-zone over his country. Th...

Hong Kong's Surge And The Pitfalls Of 'Zero COVID'

16 Mar 2022

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A missile strike on apartment buildings in the Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv on Tuesday killed at least four people and resulted in fires for hours afte...

Baseball's Back, Alright!

15 Mar 2022

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On Monday, delegations from Russia and Ukraine met again for talks in hopes of reaching a ceasefire, but the negotiations ended without reaching an ag...

Season Premiere Of COVID Season Three

14 Mar 2022

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Russia launched 30 missiles at a Ukrainian military base over the weekend, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 134 more.New COVID cases i...

Russia's Economic Isolation

11 Mar 2022

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Russian forces continued to advance in Ukraine after diplomatic talks between the two countries failed to stop the fighting or even to reach a tempora...

The Humanitarian Crisis In Ukraine

10 Mar 2022

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A Russian airstrike destroyed a maternity hospital in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Wednesday. This is the latest example of Russian forc...

Too Much Of A Fuel Thing

09 Mar 2022

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President Biden banned the import of Russian oil and natural gas into the United States on Tuesday, which is expected to have a serious impact on the ...

Fighting For A Living Wage In Hawai'i

08 Mar 2022

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Today, workers in Hawai’i are rallying at their State Capitol to raise the state’s minimum wage for the first time since 2018. Christy MacPherson,...

Supporting Ukraine While Avoiding Direct War With Russia

07 Mar 2022

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Today marks 12 days since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Over the weekend, the violence continued in multiple Ukrainian cities, efforts ...

The Fight Against Texas's Anti-Trans Agenda

04 Mar 2022

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Russian and Ukrainian delegates agreed to what’s being called “humanitarian corridors” so trapped Ukrainian citizens can leave the country. But ...

Evaluating Biden's Record On Gun Control with David Hogg

03 Mar 2022

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Russian forces captured the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson yesterday, making it the first to fall since the invasion that began last week. Today, ...

Reacting To Biden's First State Of The Union with Jon Favreau

02 Mar 2022

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued into its sixth day, with explosions shaking the cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv, and the death toll rising. Accord...

Running As A Progressive In Texas with Jessica Cisneros

01 Mar 2022

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On Monday, Russian forces made progress in their efforts to encircle Ukraine’s capital Kyiv despite being slowed down by continued resistance from U...

Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History

28 Feb 2022

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Ukrainian officials will reportedly talk with Russia as early as today on the border of Ukraine and Belarus. Matt Duss, Senator Bernie Sanders’ fore...

"Don't Say Gay" Passes In Florida And Russia Advances In Ukraine

25 Feb 2022

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Russia invaded Ukraine early Thursday morning, and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said that over 130 people died – both soldiers and civil...

Russia Attacks Ukraine

24 Feb 2022

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In a televised speech early Thursday Moscow-time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” to protect Donbas, the...

How Putin's Aggressions Are Playing Out In Ukraine

23 Feb 2022

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President Biden announced sanctions against Russia on Tuesday while referring to President Vladimir Putin’s recent actions as the “beginning of a ...

Russia Recognizes New Territories And That's Far More Aggressive Than It Sounds

22 Feb 2022

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The Russia-Ukraine crisis ramped up this past weekend, and in a controversial address on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the indep...

Snow Long, Beijing

18 Feb 2022

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On Thursday, there was a big spike in shelling across the front line between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists within Ukraine. The...

Reading Between The Strains with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

17 Feb 2022

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On Wednesday, federal officials announced upcoming guidance changes, which reflects yet another new stage of the pandemic. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, epidemi...

Kyiv Your Friends Close And Your Enemies Closer

16 Feb 2022

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the military has ordered some Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine to return to their base...

The Notly-Anticipated Debut Of The Texas Voting Law

15 Feb 2022

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Monday marked the start of in-person early voting in Texas ahead of the state’s March 1st primary. Texas is just one of nearly 20 states that will h...

The Little Trucker Blockade That Could

14 Feb 2022

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Canadian police began arresting those who were part of the ongoing so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests, yesterday. It’s been almost a week since...

I Know Who You Called Last January with Rep. Zoe Lofgren

11 Feb 2022

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The House January 6th Committee has found gaps in official phone logs from the White House on the day of the insurrection, during times when investiga...

A Slow Descent Into Maskless

10 Feb 2022

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Several states announced plans to lift mask mandates this week, but the federal government is taking a more cautious approach, and has communicated th...

On Race, The NFL Fumbles The Ball

09 Feb 2022

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This weekend's Super Bowl LVI comes as the NFL is being sued by Brian Flores, a former head coach of the Miami Dolphins who has accused the league rac...

Inside The Unionization Effort At Amazon

08 Feb 2022

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The White House released a report yesterday detailing how it wants to increase union participation and collective bargaining in the workforce amid his...

Maps, They Don't Draw You Like I Draw You with Michael Li

07 Feb 2022

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The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Republican-drawn congressional and state legislative maps constituted partisan gerrymanders that...

Showing Up For Trans Rights with Chase Strangio

04 Feb 2022

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South Dakota became the first state to pass an anti-trans bill in 2022 yesterday, and according to a report by the Human Rights Campaign, roughly 280 ...

Where We Stand In The Fight For Reproductive Justice

03 Feb 2022

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Roe v. Wade was issued just over 49 years ago, and in the months ahead, we're faced with the very real possibility that the Supreme Court could effect...

Police Killings And The DOJ

02 Feb 2022

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The NAACP is urging the Justice Department to bring federal civil rights charges against Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who murdered 17-ye...

Get Your Bans Off My Books with George M. Johnson

01 Feb 2022

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As we celebrate the beginning of Black History Month, conservatives are actively and aggressively silencing educators’ ability to talk honestly abou...

Are You Putin Or Are You Out?

31 Jan 2022

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Concerns of a possible Russian invasion into Ukraine continue to mount, with Britain moving this week to broaden the sanctions it could impose in case...

Supreme Courting The Voters with Dan Pfeiffer

28 Jan 2022

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President Biden reaffirmed his commitment to nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court yesterday, and said that he would announce his choice by th...

Don’t Breyer Because It’s Over, Smile Because It Happened

27 Jan 2022

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The 83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer intends to retire at the end of this Supreme Court term in June, according to multiple reports yesterday. The o...

All Eyes On Ukraine with Ben Rhodes

26 Jan 2022

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Russia conducted a series of military drills yesterday while Ukraine received a shipment of weapons including antitank missiles from the U.S. These we...

Could A Conservative Court End Affirmative Action?

25 Jan 2022

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The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will hear cases on the right of universities to consider race in admissions. The court has historically ...

The Palin New York Times

24 Jan 2022

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New U.S. cases of COVID are down slightly from the peak brought on by the Omicron variant. Average daily cases are closer to 700,000 than 800,000, whi...

You Can't Spell Ivanka Without Subpoena

21 Jan 2022

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A number of inquiries into former President Trump’s interference in the 2020 election are advancing. Yesterday, the House committee investigating la...

Biden Looks Back At It

20 Jan 2022

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Today is the first anniversary of President Biden taking office. Yesterday, he held his first formal news conference in months to discuss his administ...

The Kyiv To Diplomacy

19 Jan 2022

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Tensions between the U.S. and Russia are rising after last week’s summit in Geneva ended with no resolution between the two countries over Ukraine. ...