Robert Allbritton, who founded and then sold Politico, is launching a kind of rival to the Post.
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Senate Democrats Should Kill the Filibuster
Republicans are trying to ram through Trump’s latest attack on voting rights. If they have to abolish the filibuster to do it, fine.
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Special-Interest Super PACs Underperform in Illinois
Only two of four AIPAC-backed Democratic House candidates won, despite tens of millions in spending.
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Illinois Senate Primary Features Millions in Outside Spending, Too
While the Democratic House primaries have gotten more attention, overlapping situational expenditures have boosted all three main contenders.
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Brian Schatz’s Signals of Comfort With Big Money
The Hawaii senator and heir apparent to Chuck Schumer attacked a bipartisan housing bill without trying to fix it, merely to show support for private equity.
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Two Progressives Fight AIPAC (and Each Other) in IL-09
It’s a two-way race between Daniel Biss and Kat Abughazaleh, but neither is counting out AIPAC-backed Laura Fine.
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In Illinois’s Eighth District, AIPAC and AI Try to Buy a Seat
Pro-corporate Melissa Bean is massively outraising Junaid Ahmed, her main progressive challenger.
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Antisemitism, Israel, and Jewish Identity
A tangled tale of Wikipedia and the perversion of the mission of the Anti-Defamation League
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Centrists: Better Things Aren’t Possible
Third Way’s strategy session for Democratic moderates lacked any vision other than a hatred for progressives.
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A Sign of the Times in Texas?
Democrats weary of the hyper-partisan chaos on Capitol Hill opt for a mild-mannered white state representative over a bold Black House member.
