Ronnie Chatterji’s insurgent campaign in North Carolina seeks to expand thinking around what a state treasurer can accomplish.
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Trump’s Tax Returns Remain Hidden. Blame Richard Neal.
The House Ways and Means Committee chair dragged his feet on issuing a subpoena for the tax returns for months. We probably won’t see them before the election as a result.
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Confessions of a Tough-on-Crime Progressive
Throughout the 1990s, Democrats supported punitive criminal justice laws. The nation has changed, and Democrats must do likewise.
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In the Race for Joe Kennedy’s Successor, an Anti-Kennedy Emerges
Ihssane Leckey, a Moroccan immigrant, faces a coterie of Ivy-educated résumé-stuffers in a crowded House primary.
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Still Exceptional After All These Years
On this July 4th, it’s clear American exceptionalism isn’t working out so well.
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This Time, It’s the Democrats’ Infrastructure Week
House Democrats steered an ambitious transportation and infrastructure plan through the chamber. Structured more like a wish list, it’s dead on arrival in the Senate.
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Trump to Trump: You’re Fired!
As Trump becomes more and more demoralized, a resignation is not out of the question. What might the great deal-maker get in return?
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Could the Elijah McClain Case Impact Colorado’s Senate Primary?
John Hickenlooper’s record on policing as mayor of Denver should be part of the story as voters cast their ballots in Tuesday’s primary.
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The End of the Trump Rally
Reality has caught up with the president, and the angry televised spectacles that defined his 2016 campaign have lost their power.