Politics
Trumpism loses a battle, but not the war
November 28, 2018Bankrupt of ideas, the GOP has a narrowing base, is descending deeper into crisis, and is becoming a “cult of Trump.”
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Centrist politicians denounce “populism” in effort to equate left and right
November 27, 2018It’s not some new populism we are seeing but the return of the big ideological questions about society’s future and of mass politics.
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Racist Mississippi Senator hopes Trump can help her win tomorrow
November 26, 2018The final chapter of the 2018 midterms is nearing a close in Mississippi and it’s turned out to be a much closer contest than anyone expected.
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The House has gone Democratic. Can its majority now go bold?
November 21, 2018Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Fla., neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school...
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Trans Day of Remembrance: Expanding focus to include the living
November 20, 2018Many trans organizers are pushing allies to take a different approach to TDOR this year, focusing instead on trans lives as opposed to just deaths.
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