House Rules Package Gives Democrats a Path to Averting a Debt Ceiling Crisis
Republicans preserved the discharge petition in the new rules package, allowing any bill with 218 votes to come to the floor — even one codifying Roe v. Wade.
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Financial World Celebrates Slowing Wage and Employment Growth in New Jobs Report
In the debate over American workers’ welfare versus the Federal Reserve’s inflation-cooling rate hikes, the workers are losing.
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Biden’s Border Plan Drapes Trump Policies in Liberal Rhetoric
The U.S. border regime is cruel whether it is enforced by a president spewing racist slurs or one appealing to “safe and orderly processing."
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The GOP's Kevin McCarthy Debacle Is an Insurrection by Other Means
Two years after January 6, Republicans are still locked in a battle for personal political power.
Republican Freedom Caucus Pushes for New Committee to Investigate the Surveillance State
Democrats fear the committee on "Weaponization of the Federal Government" will become a partisan cudgel.
Kevin McCarthy Must Commit to Government Shutdown Over Raising Debt Ceiling, Says Freedom Caucus Holdout
Rep. Ralph Norman, a South Carolina Republican, said the debt ceiling fight is a “non-negotiable item.”
What Matt Gaetz and AOC Talked About During Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker Vote
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Matt Gaetz wanted to know if Democrats would bail out the would-be Republican speaker. Not a chance, she told him.
How Jan. 6 Brought Frontier Violence to the Heart of U.S. Power
The rioters had the aspect of barbarians ready to sack the Capitol. So who was manning the gates?
Biden’s "Diplomacy" in Yemen Means Taking Saudi Arabia’s Side — and Could Spark All-Out War
The White House said Bernie Sanders’s war powers resolution would prolong the war, but that’s what its own efforts are doing.
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Liberals Rose to Fight the Assault on Abortion — but Not Trans Rights
2022 has seen right-wing attacks on trans rights increasingly aided by the tacit, if sometimes unwitting, transphobia of liberal institutions.