In a system driven by big donors, a pioneering Seattle program hands the campaign-finance purse strings to average and even homeless voters.
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Sessions Must Go, But It Can’t End There
Senator Kamala Harris makes the attorney general nervous for good reason. She knows how to expose the truth.
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An Open Letter to the Republican Leadership
Why you are better off ousting Trump sooner rather than later
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Everybody Needs to Stop Telling Hillary Clinton to Shut Up
Why are so many people so angry at her?
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‘Homeland’ Meets ACORN in the Land of Fake News
A new documentary tells the real story of the right’s attack on ACORN and what it portended.
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Britain: The Triumph and the Muddle
While Labour’s astonishing gains in yesterday’s snap election could prove transformational for the British left, Brexit negotiations promise to be a protracted mess.
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After Comey, Congressional Republicans Totally Control Trump
To avoid impeachment, the president has no real choice but to do their bidding.
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Rolling the Dice on Deportation
Donald Trump has shaken up the immigration system, causing a new cloud of uncertainty to hang over undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers.
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School Suspensions, Test Scores, and Lead Poisoning
Economists find new evidence that kids with higher exposure to lead are more likely to misbehave in school and do worse academically.
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House GOP Votes to Deregulate Wall Street and Gut Consumer Protections
Just the latest example of trickle-down ideologues trying to wipe away the hard lessons learned from the Great Recession.