Israel’s War on Gaza
The Truth About Israel, Boycotts, and BDS
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the first House members to support the BDS movement. Mehdi Hasan debunks some of the controversies surrounding BDS.
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Elizabeth Warren Has a Track Record of Taking on the Rich and Powerful. Don’t Write Her Off for 2020.
Sen. Warren stumbled with a DNA test on her Native American ancestry. But she's harder on Wall Street than Kamala Harris and Cory Booker combined.
The War on Immigrants
Donald Trump's Travel Ban Faces a New Day in Court
This week, a federal court will hear arguments in a case challenging the Trump administration's failure to implement a waiver system for the travel ban.
Google Dragonfly
Google CEO Hammered by Members of Congress on China Censorship Plan
Sundar Pichai told the House Judiciary Committee that Google has “no plans to launch a search service in China.”
Something New Is Happening in the House: Progressives Are Winning Internal Fights
A House rule that required a supermajority to raise taxes is being iced under pressure from the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
A GOP Governor Has a Chance to Fix a Blue State’s Draconian Approach to Paroling Juvenile Offenders
Larry Hogan, re-elected to his second and final term, should give juveniles with life sentences a real chance at parole, criminal justice reformers urge.
The Remarkable Tale of the Corporate Lobbyist Sworn In as a Temporary U.S. Senator
“By getting this dip into the Senate, he gets an increased profile, an increased rolodex. It burnishes his stature but does nothing for the republic.”
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John Kelly Was a Bully, Bigot, and Liar for Trump. Goodbye and Good Riddance.
The departing White House chief of staff was Trump’s nasty and brutish mini-me. He was never the “adult in the room.”
Falling for “Les Fake News,” Trump Spreads Lie That French Protesters Chanted His Name
Donald Trump is so vain, he really thinks the protests in Paris are about him.
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How George H.W. Bush Rode a Fake National Security Scandal to the Top of the CIA
The killing of a CIA agent in Greece was used to thwart reforms as Bush became the first openly partisan director of the spy agency in 1976.