Politics

Cut the Military Budget in Half

It’s not enough just to oppose this war on Iran. We should demand major cuts to the US military budget, starting with cutting it in half.That Washington has the right to bomb, invade, or attack any...

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Leaving the United States Behind

Photographs by Natalie KeyssarThe Cruz family was exhausted. It was two days before Christmas 2024, and Rachel was coughing from bronchitis, her body once again crashing into the holiday break as s...

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Ties to Israel plague Democrats in top primaries post-Gaza

Israel, after a long, devastating war in Gaza, has become so unpopular among many voters in the Democratic base that major candidates in top primaries are using even small connections to the countr...

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The bruising, messy House primary battles to watch today

Primary season is officially here. And the first elections of the midterms expose generational and ideological divides for both parties.The biggest contests on Tuesday night — when elections are be...

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“Let’s Just Do It”: How Netanyahu Convinced Trump to Bomb Iran

In contrast to President Donald Trump’s vacillating rationale, it appears the United States did not go to war with Iran to wipe out its nonexistent nuclear program, respond to a nonsensical threat ...

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Iran is not Venezuela as much as Trump wants it to be

President Donald Trump had a likely successor in mind when his administration took out former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in January. He doesn’t have that in Iran.In the runup to the joint U.S...

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Supreme Court halts Dem effort to redraw New York congressional seat

The Supreme Court has agreed to freeze a Democratic effort to redraw New York GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ district before this year’s midterms.In a ruling issued Monday evening, the justices appea...

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Republicans took shots at Hillary Clinton — and she came ready to fight back

Hillary Clinton was subpoenaed to testify about what she knew about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Instead, she was being asked to answer questions about “Pizzagate.”A former first lady, U...

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'Pretty Bad for Vance': The VP’s Silence on Iran Peeves Allies

In January 2023, then-Senator JD Vance took to the Wall Street Journal op-ed page to announce his early support for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. The primary reason for his suppor...

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Centrist Dems met to plot 2028. Then Iran happened.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Hours after the American military strikes in Iran started, Third Way co-founder Matt Bennett scrambled to write up a presentation on how centrist Democrats should talk about fore...

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Democrats reject ‘ridiculous’ GOP demand to fund DHS after Iran attack

Democrats said Monday they have no plans to end their blockade of Department of Homeland Security funding in the face of GOP pressure to capitulate after President Donald Trump’s sweeping strikes o...

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Majority of Americans oppose Trump’s Iran strikes, per new polling

Americans broadly disapprove of the Trump administration’s military strikes on Iran, according to several polls conducted after the U.S. attacked Tehran early Saturday morning.Nearly six in 10 Amer...

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Judge restores lawmakers’ unfettered access to ICE detention facilities

The Department of Homeland Security may not bar members of Congress from making unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities, a federal judge ruled Monday, blocking a policy imposed in January by...

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House panel releases Bill and Hillary Clinton’s depositions on Epstein

The House committee charged with investigating Jeffrey Epstein has released more than nine hours of video footage from last week’s closed-door depositionswith Bill and Hillary Clinton.The former pr...

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Supreme Court wrestles with gun ban for drug users

The Supreme Court appears likely to rule in favor of a Texas man who uses marijuana several times a week and was convicted under a federal law that bans an “unlawful user” of drugs from possessing ...

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GOP targets California for ballot fight on voter ID

SACRAMENTO, California — Republicans' best shot at a big win on voter ID this year might come, of all places, in California, where activists today began submitting signatures to put the issue on th...

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Trump's Oval Office press conferences, a difficult test for visiting leaders, have stopped

Last year’s high-stakes meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy imploded in real time. Cameras rolling, Zelenskyy audaciously contradicted President Donald Trump — only to be berated a...

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Netflix’s wake-up in Trump’s Washington

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos underestimated President Donald Trump.He went into Thursday’s meeting at the White House brushing off Trump’s attacks on Netflix board member Susan Rice as bluster – eve...

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Rubio: Trump administration has plan to calm oil markets

The Trump administration will unveil a plan on Tuesday to combat the rise in oil prices triggered by the U.S. military strikes against Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday, Rubio’s stat...

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Israel strikes Lebanon as conflict broadens throughout Middle East

The U.S.-Israel war against Iran broadened out overnight as Israel launched strikes at Lebanon and Iran began striking critical Aramco oil facilities in the Gulf.Israel’s early morning strikes in H...

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The Impossible Predicament of the Uninsured

The day after Thanksgiving, I got a voicemail. A woman identified herself as a doctor at the University of Louisville hospital: “I believe I may have one of your family members here.”The message wa...

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