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Progressive Candidates Surge Again as Trump Drags GOP Down
AOC defeated her conservative primary opponent by the razor-thin margin of 72-19. And that's just the beginning.
Trump’s Arizona Rally Confirms His COVID Policy Is Driven Only by His Ego
It’s all too terrible for a Hollywood script, and exactly as real as your next breath.
Get Police Out of Schools — Including University Campuses
Calls to defund and abolish police departments have fueled movements to dismantle and defund police on college campuses.
Trump’s Arizona Trip Showcases the Biggest Failures of His Presidency
Trump heads to Arizona to brag about a nonexistent wall, ignore the worsening pandemic and save a doomed senator.
Defund the Police. Invest in Black Farmers.
We have an opportunity right now to turn this painful conversation around policing into one about life and growth.
Radical Mothering for Abolitionist Futures Post-COVID-19
This system no longer serves us. It has never served us. It must fall.
Trump Got a Humiliating Comeuppance in Tulsa. Expect New Lows From His Campaign.
Following the president's broad-spectrum rally calamity in Tulsa, there is finally a sense of a reckoning in the air.
“Soul Searching” Will Not Stop the Police Murders of Black People
Politicians calling on us to transform ourselves are avoiding doing anything transformative.
Austerity Measures Have No Place in Next Coronavirus Relief Bill
Two congressional proposals put the burden of debt reduction on the poorest and most vulnerable Americans.
Following Supreme Court Rulings, Trump Attacks the Independence of the Judiciary
The administration is showing an increased willingness to find any way around a court decision that it does not like.