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IRS Cuts in Debt Ceiling Deal Will Cost Over $40 Billion in Lost Revenue
Sheldon Whitehouse, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, pointed out that the cuts will add $19 billion to the deficit.
Manchin, Tester and Sinema Join Senate GOP to Repeal Biden Student Debt Relief
H.J. Res. 45 would reinstate the debt of over 260,000 public service workers whose loan balances have been wiped clean.
Ecofascism Is a Rising Threat. We Should Take Modi’s Ascendance as a Warning.
International greenwashing is feting and abetting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ecofascism.
More Than 530 Anti-LGBTQ Bills Have Been Proposed Across the Country in 2023
The U.S. soon could witness “the most substantial Pride celebrations in recent memory,” one bill tracker said.
Students Decry Disciplinary Actions Taken Against Teacher Who Showed Disney Film
“The system is broken,” the teacher in question, Jenna Barbee, said at the board meeting this week.
Debt Ceiling Deal Ends Freeze on Student Loan Payments for Millions
Debt relief activists are urging members of Congress and the Biden administration to strike the provision from the deal.
McCarthy Warns That Social Security and Medicare Are the GOP’s Next Target
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the debt ceiling agreement is just “the first step” of the GOP's broader agenda.
If the Police Can Decide Who Qualifies as a Journalist, There Is No Free Press
Where’s the outcry? Mainstream media have been strangely silent following the arrest of two reporters in North Carolina.
A TN Woman Nearly Died and Required a Hysterectomy After Being Denied Abortion
Doctors couldn't help early in the woman's pregnancy because they feared violating the state's anti-abortion law.
Why Is the Fed Seeking Advice From the Architect of Past Financial Meltdowns?
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has been looking to disaster-prone ex-Treasury head Larry Summers for insight, emails reveal.