Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen’s defection signals the power of the anti-Trump grassroots movement—and the vulnerability of many suburban Republicans.
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10 Lessons From the Republican Health-Care Debacle
The terms of the health-care debate have clearly changed.
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Mick Mulvaney: Trickle Downer of the Week
Trump’s budget chief is testing just how far one can go to peddle feed-the-rich economic policies.
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Congress Must Act: Trump’s Russia Ties a Full-Blown Crisis for U.S. Democracy
If there has ever been a need for a select committee and an independent prosecutor, that time is now.
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Who Loses If Trump Cuts Public Media Funding? His Supporters.
Ending federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as President Trump proposes, will shutter local stations in rural areas and poorer states, and hit GOP constituents hardest.
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Trump Costs Struggling Retirement Savers Billions of Dollars
The president’s fiduciary rule delay hurts future retirees and allows Wall Street to continue lining its pockets.
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GOP Senate About to Allow Bad Employers to Avoid Reporting Workplace Injuries
Republicans want to undermine the government’s top workplace safety enforcer, and allow dangerous employers to run wild.
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The People’s Defense: Why Senators Must Reject Gorsuch
Activists have mounted an unprecedented grassroots campaign to reject Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
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Taking a Scalpel to Medicaid
Republican claims of their bill’s great flexibility for the states are a sham cover for disabling cuts.