2021-04-14 09:30:23 | John Boehner’s book is a gossipy treat — but it doesn’t redeem him
John Boehner is like one of those guys you aren’t really friends with, even though you’ve known about him for years. You know the type: …
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2021-04-13 09:32:10 | Police keep creating Black corpses. We are being crushed under the weight.
It’s Monday afternoon. I’m watching the latest news from Minnesota. Daunte Wright is dead. Brooklyn Center police released the body camera video from the shooting …
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2021-04-12 09:32:00 | Corporate taxes can’t stay low while America crumbles
The days since President Joe Biden introduced his infrastructure plan have seen an all-hands push from his economic team to convince the country that this …
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2021-04-09 09:48:45 | The U.S. can’t keep hoarding Covid-19 vaccines from the world
The American vaccination campaign is finally humming, a seemingly night-and-day difference from the mad scramble to obtain the minuscule number of vaccine doses available just …
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2021-04-08 09:30:08 | Why Arkansas’s anti-trans rights law isn’t just a trans issue
On Wednesday morning, an old friend messaged me: “So, I realize this is a bit impertinent of me … but am I going to see …
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2021-04-07 09:35:37 | Why conservatives are wrong to say broadband access isn’t infrastructure spending
“Broadband is infrastructure.” That’s what President Joe Biden’s Twitter account posted Monday night. You might not have noticed, given that it’s a perfectly anodyne statement …
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2021-04-06 21:10:40 | Pro-Trump whites afraid of being replaced attacked the Capitol. That’s a race riot.
It’s been three months exactly since we watched — on live television — as supporters of former President Donald Trump climbed past barricades, shattered windows …
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2021-04-06 09:31:34 | The GOP wants to cancel Coca-Cola — but keep corporate taxes low
If you’d asked me, say, five years ago what the Republican Party’s economic ideology was, I’d have boiled it down to something like “Government interference …
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2021-04-05 09:31:11 | Biden’s Iran nuclear diplomacy needs to fix Trump’s mistakes
The hotels of Vienna are likely to be prepping for a bit of déjà vu. The Austrian city is where, after months of negotiations, the …
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2021-04-02 09:31:10 | New York’s marijuana law can finally reverse the drug war’s harm
That sort of gap wouldn’t fly with Crystal Peoples-Stokes, the New York Assembly’s majority leader, who happens to be a Black woman. “I haven’t seen …
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