Politics
Filibuster or democracy: Can’t have both
July 2, 2021The warning from democracy advocates is clear: Kill the filibuster and pass the For the People Act, or our democracy won’t survive.
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Supreme Court guts what’s left of the Voting Rights Act
July 1, 2021In a 6-3 ruling, it upholds two racist Arizona voting laws; activists say they are not giving up the fight.
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Labor, green groups unite to push Jobs Plan and Families Plan
June 30, 2021Congress seems hell-bent on passing a stripped-down version of the Jobs Plan and—thanks to rigid Senate Republican opposition and filibuster threats—doing nothing at all about the Families Plan.
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Will Biden continue the racist Trump-era ‘China Initiative?’
June 30, 2021Accusations of terrible crimes, like spying or stealing millions of dollars, have been made against scholars. Could it all be an attempt to recruit for U.S. intelligence?
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Progressive groups gather support for $6 trillion-plus ‘bigger than Biden’ budget bill
June 29, 2021Their “bigger than Biden bill” is nothing less than a moral imperative, they say, that would enable completion of the real work that has to be done.
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