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Rex Tillerson to Congress: Jared Kushner Went Behind My Back on Foreign Policy
The former secretary of state tells Congress that Kushner's freelance diplomacy and Trump's ignorance were “challenges.”
Democratic Candidates Are Sounding a Lot Like Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt’s approach to reining in corporations should sound familiar to those who watched the Democratic debates.
The Muslim Ban: A Family Separation Policy
Numbers from the State Department show the human cost of the ban.
State Redistricting a Target for “Dark Money” After Supreme Court Ruling
Efforts to add anti-gerrymandering initiatives to the ballot in 2020 are underway in several states.
Trump Is the Perverse Personification of American Exceptionalism
Trump's idea of exceptionalism mostly amounts to a stunning breach of protocol around the U.S.'s allies.
Democratic Debates Were Depth-Free. Will Future Rounds Be Better?
Many of the candidates were jockeying for prominence in promoting Bernie Sanders’s ideas.
Sanders Says US Leaders Need to Have the Guts to Take on Powerful Corporations
Sanders's closing speech was widely viewed as his strongest moment of the night.
Calling Trump’s Rationale “Contrived,” Supreme Court Halts Citizenship Question
The court's opinion confronted the Trump administration’s false justification for adding the citizenship question.
SCOTUS Hands GOP Gerrymandering Victory, Ensuring “Massive Election Rigging”
The Supreme Court decision is a GOP victory that allows extreme partisan gerrymandering to continue.
Joe Biden and Chuck Todd Lose the Second Democratic Debate
Biden had a bad night, full stop. The ground has shifted.