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Normalizing Trump

Joe Biden said it while presiding over the counting of the votes of the Electoral College in the House of Representatives yesterday: “It’s over.” The vote effectively delivered a license for the Trump...

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Shock therapy: To Russia from the U.S, From Russia back to the U.S ... with...

It is now common knowledge that Russia’s Vladimir Putin was personally behind efforts to intervene in the 2016 American presidential election. We also know that President-elect Donald Trump was Putin’s...

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Why we need congressmen and women to boycott the inauguration

As of 10:29 am to day, Jan. 19, 2017, 65 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have announced that they'll be skipping Donald Trump's inauguration. Rep. Lacy Clay (D-1) is one of the 65. He's...

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The Big Lie and Trump's inauguration speech

TPM’s Josh Marshall cautions against despair as we contemplate a Trump  presidency. He acknowledges that the man and the direction that he will take our country is clear and has been so for a long time...

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Can progressive feminists make common cause with anti-abortion feminists?

In the media reports of the Women’s March on January 21 and following the anti-abortion March on the 27th some conservative women expressed self-righteous outrage that their participation wasn’t...

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Ben Carson - the lone African American in Trumpland shows us how its done

Re theHuffington Post, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) met with the agency’s employees today and his remarks were just as surreal what we’ve come to expect from denizens...

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Optimism vs. pessimism: Is Ruy Teixeira right - will we survive the...

Ruy Teixeira is a well-known political analyst and a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and The Center for American Progress. He’s written a new book with the provocative title, The Optimistic...

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The Great GOP AHCA vote auction: Sold! To the highest bidder

Apropos the political disaster that has resulted from Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with something “better” (a.k.a. the GOP Dump and Dupe operation), Kevin...

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Is the resistance flagging already?

In recent days there has been quite a bit of media coverage, including a few diaries on DailyKos (see here and here for today’s most prominent offerings) on the topic of the Senate’s rush to push a...

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Sometimes Scaramuccia even loses his head

Antony Scaramucci, a wealthy financier, Trump sycophant and, as David Brooks put it on the PBS NewsHour yesterday (7/21), a “bro,” is, as everyone knows by now, the new White House communications...

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No more lambs to the slaughter

There s a common canard that German Jews submitted passively to Nazi atrocities and had they only resisted, there would have been no Holocaust. This belief is demonstrably false. There were many...

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Dangerous TV: The Blacklist gave us an idealized Trump before there was...

One thing that the last presidential election shows us is that successful politicians and political movements need to have not only a consistent narrative, but one that strikes an emotionally resonant...

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