Biden’s Strikes in Yemen Are Unconstitutional, Bipartisan Members of Congress Say
The attacks against the Iran-backed Houthis stoked fears of U.S. involvement in a regional conflagration.
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Nausicaa Renner is Deputy Editor of The Intercept. She was previously Washington Editor at The Intercept, digital editor at Columbia Journalism Review, and a senior editor at n+1. Her essays on politics, psychoanalysis, and books have appeared in n+1, the New York Times Magazine, NewYorker.com, and the New Republic, among others. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, and grew up in Chicago.
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MSNBC pundits were so excited about Biden’s win in South Carolina that they wrote off Sanders’s national support among black and young people.
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The War on Immigrants
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