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President Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made public calls for Republicans, who remain at an impasse over funding the government, to resolve their differences before next Sunday. [...]
As criminal cases proceed against the former president, heated rhetoric and anger among his supporters have the authorities worried about the risk of political dissent becoming deadly. [...]
Ron DeSantis wears a “Ron DeSantis” shirt. Tim Scott sports a “Tim Scott” hat. Self-branding is all the rage for presidential candidates. To find out why, we asked Vanessa Friedman. [...]
President Emmanuel Macron said he had also recalled the country’s ambassador, after weeks of escalating tensions with Niger’s new military leaders. [...]
The former press secretary in the Bush White House will moderate the next Republican debate. She’s managed to rise at Fox without being a Trump supplicant. [...]
The other day, Joe Biden announced that he is going to Michigan on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, to stand with the UAW strikers. This is being seen and promoted as [...]
The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, intended to consume at least 85 acres of forest adjacent to Atlanta’s Black working-class neighborhoods, is more accurately called Cop City. Slated to be [...]
Image by Harold Mendoza. A spate of articles on gerontocracy have emerged over the last few months, spawned by recent events like Trump’s particularly unhinged campaign trail comments, 81-year-old Senate [...]
First, the two cops knocked on the wrong door. Then they didn't identify themselves. Then they shot the Lopez family dog. Then they shot Ismail Lopez in the back of [...]
America’s commitment to democracy has always been tenuous at best. Our wealth was founded upon the enslavement of Africans and the expropriation of Indigenous land and resources. International power was [...]