The caucus is recommending that members vote against the perennial defense authorization bill, in part because it could extend warrantless spying through this Congress.
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Spying Extension Angers Broad Majority Favoring Reform
Speaker Mike Johnson inserted a four-month extension of a warrantless spying program into the annual defense policy bill.
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‘I Don’t Want to Be George Floyd’
Another African American dies in Mobile, as police shootings multiply in Alabama.
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How the March on Washington Changed the U.S.—and Me
Sixty years ago, the great march set me on a different path.
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It’s Up to the Feds to Protect Trans Rights
Only national policy can protect all vulnerable Americans from right-wing oppression.
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Celebrating Dr. King’s Embrace of Multiracial Justice
We need coalitions of conscience now more than ever.
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Lynching Is Now a Federal Crime
Opposition to making lynching a federal offense finally dissolves as Emmett Till’s family continues to seek justice.
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Red Alert in Virginia
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin displays his Trumpist credentials.
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On Being American
Mitch McConnell reminded us that Americans often have trouble with the reality of fully American Black people. Expect more such flare-ups in the new Supreme Court fight.
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A Sobering MLK Day
That arc of the moral universe is looking especially long right now—but one can also tell a more hopeful story.
