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The October Surprise: Michael Isikoff on the FBI’s Clinton Email Investigation That Could Jolt Race
FBI Director James Comey notified congressional leaders that the agency had discovered more of Clinton's emails.
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It’s Alive
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The Threat of a Right-Wing Supreme Court: Analyzing Trump’s Prospective Justices
The next president will change the Supreme Court's ideological makeup for four decades.
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Badly Needed Humor and the Left: An Interview and a Few History Notes
Have we ever needed radical humor more than now?
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Ken Bone: Undecided Menace
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Activists Weigh Path Forward After Congress Thwarts GMO Food Labels
Although the new federal law directs food companies to disclose whether products contain genetically modified ingredients, labels are not necessary.
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Is Trump’s Rise a Result of the US Declaring War on Institutions That Make Democracy Possible?
Henry Giroux critiques what he believes is a slide toward authoritarianism and other failings that led to the current political climate and rise of Donald Trump.
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The Bizarro World
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Can Trump Pull Off His Biggest Con of All?
Lance Selfa looks at the underlying patterns of Election 2016 to explain how and why the tax-cheating, billionaire is still making it close.
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Bush Officials Immunity for War on Terror Abuses to Be Subject, Again, of Supreme Court Battle
SCOTUS will determine if high-ranking US officials can be sued for civil rights abuses that occurred just after September 11.