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I've been doing it every day. Stop2End. Stop sending me text messages from my favorite politicians begging for money. Dear Susan, they begin as if they know you (except the ones I get regularly for someone named Virginia who lives in Georgia and must have had a similar number in another life). The system is not flawless. It just seems that way...Read more

In times of crisis -- and who can doubt that we are living in one now? -- political people ask themselves whether they are about to witness a dramatic ideological realignment and, if so, whether the reconfiguration of the left-to-right spectrum of U.S. electoral contests opens up new possibilities for themselves and the issues that motivate ...Read more

As millions of Texas voters cast their ballots in an election that could determine control of the United States Senate, the rest of us can only hope they have gleaned the single most salient fact about Republican nominee Ken Paxton. As Texas attorney general, Paxton is technically the state's top law enforcement officer. And he is also an ...Read more

The Chao Auditorium was packed. Students sat on the floor to make room and there was still standing room only. Community members gathered on Oct. 28 for an education about what has been happening to Black students and Black faculty at the University of Louisville.

Ricky Jones addressed the crowd. Jones is the Dr. Charles Parrish Jr. ...Read more

In the room where you watch football, what you call your "man cave," there's a painting on the wall.

Well, it's not really a painting. It's one of those pictures that looks like a painting. You bought it out of an online catalogue that sells cheese, summer sausage, fleece shirts that look like plaid flannel, and night-lights in the shape of ...Read more

"It is one of the weakest election lawsuits I've ever seen," Professor Richard Pildes, an NYU professor who has seen them all, said of the Justice Department's preemptive lawsuit attempting to block the Alaska Senate results -- if the Republican loses. "It should have no realistic chance of success in the courts," he told The New York Times.

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Pick a Thanksgiving table, any Thanksgiving table in America, and it's sure to have a turkey and a grumpy uncle.

Sometimes they are one and the same, stuffed with all the trimmings.

As the midterms draw near, this November will be an especially heated month, right? We the people are so deeply carved down the center. There's no moderate ...Read more

E-I-E-I-O! If Republican agriculture policy were a crop, farmers would plow it under. Why? Because it's worthless.

Worse than worthless, GOP policy: No. 1: bilks taxpayers to pay billions of dollars a year to bail out the biggest corporate farms; No. 2: it forces productive family farmers out of business by intentionally eliminating their ...Read more

The new Supreme Court term began on Oct. 5, and the ACLU is shaping up to have another busy term, perhaps even topping our busiest term ever last year when the Supreme Court decided six ACLU cases on the merits docket.

Before the term even started, the ACLU had a flurry of action on the Supreme Court's emergency docket, where parties who have...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Once upon a time, a theory made waves in political science courses that it didn't matter who the president was because the U.S. government was so mighty that it would run itself without any one person in charge.

That's ridiculous. I hope that professor lived to see what hell we're burning in now. His grade: F.

One man has ...Read more

You probably won't believe this, boys and girls, but there was a time when government regulatory officials believed it was their public duty to -- get this -- serve the public!

How? By enforcing laws intended to protect consumers, workers, the environment and other targets of raw corporate greed. Today, though, far-right plutocrats behind ...Read more

No one has been more famously obstinate about disregarding the truth when it interfered with a preferred narrative than the otherwise obscure Republican congressman from Indiana, Earl Landgrebe, who made it plain in 1974 that he didn't care a whit about President Richard Nixon's guilt. "Don't confuse me with the facts," Landgrebe said when ...Read more

Why on earth did Ford stop making its heralded electric truck? As Americans shudder at high gasoline prices, prospective truck buyers are lining up at car lots to buy used F-150 Lightning and other electric vehicles. Ford stopped making the F-150 Lightning last December.

There are several reasons American automakers pulled back from an ...Read more

A grieving mother had her children ripped away without warning in the wake of a family tragedy in Georgia in July 2024. After her son died by suicide, the state obtained an emergency order to immediately remove her surviving children -- with no notice, no hearing and no finding that the children were in any danger. In the same state, a ...Read more