It infuses Silicon Valley–style ideas and private philanthropy into an eroding safety net, and calls for no sacrifice from the wealthy.
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Letter Carriers’ Union and Congressional Democrats Clash Over Louis DeJoy
House Democrats want the entire Postal Service board fired so their successors can remove DeJoy. The National Association of Letter Carriers privately opposed them.
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Altercation: Celebrating Ellsberg at 90 and DeGrom at Just One
The stories of the guy who snitched on Dan, and the Mets who still can’t hit
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Will the Senate Leadership Allow Local Democrats to Choose Their Candidates?
Charles Booker’s 2022 Senate campaign in Kentucky will provide the next test. When Booker ran last time, the DSCC clumsily intervened, leading to a disastrous loss.
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Altercation: Lonely Are the Brave (Also the Sane)
Reporting on a Republican who nailed QAnon, the Times actually gets its description of the right right.
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Nebraska’s Rural Rebellion
A native Nebraskan deconstructs the Cornhusker State’s conservative politics and culture and how Democrats fell so far so fast.
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The Biden Administration Squares Off With Congressional Progressives in Louisiana
Troy Carter and Karen Carter Peterson, on opposite wings of the party on several issues, run for a House seat in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
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Why Democrats Won’t Overturn Many Trump-Era Rules
The Congressional Review Act requires only a majority vote to nullify certain regulations. But the Democratic leadership lacked much urgency to tackle it.
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The First Progressive Primary Challenge of 2022
Odessa Kelly announces her candidacy in a Nashville, Tennessee, House district against ten-term Blue Dog Jim Cooper.
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Altercation: An Anti-Semite Who’s Anything But
Yet another fiction in the right wing’s echo chamber
