The plan, with an immediate $200 per month benefit increase, sets the left edge of the possible on a bedrock Democratic program.
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How Democracy Died in North Carolina
Republicans sneaking through a budget bill while Democrats attended a 9/11 ceremony exemplifies how the Tar Heel State’s political institutions have been decimated by right-wing rule.
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African Asylum Seekers to the U.S. Stuck on the Mexico-Guatemala Border
Long-distance victims of Trump’s war on immigrants, African migrants have few options for refuge and fewer ways to support themselves while they wait.
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California Legislature Prepares to Rein In Gig Economy
If AB 5 becomes law, it could open the floodgates to similar legislation in other states. Uber and other companies may then find themselves on the defensive.
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Warren Gets the Edge at New Hampshire Democratic Convention
Convention-goers lock in their support, and Joe Biden gets mostly locked out.
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Is Trump’s Justice Department Trying to Discredit All Antitrust?
Its plainly political investigation of auto companies that agreed to California’s emission standards is just that absurd.
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San Francisco Makes a Charge Toward Public Power
The city’s bid to take over PG&E could mark a turning point in restoring a more environmentally and economically just power grid.
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Google Is Like Facebook—but a Lot Smarter
Unlike Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Google knows how to wield soft power to avoid estranging Democrats.
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Never Again, Except for Right Now
By arguing that ‘the left’ represents as dangerous a threat as mass shooters and right-wing terrorists, Times writer Bari Weiss cheapens the crisis facing America, one that she has witnessed firsthand.
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Congress Returns With Health Care Bills at the Desk
There are lots of reasons why health care bills will get passed this fall. There are also lots of reasons why they won’t.
