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Over the past eighteen months, in election after election, Americans across political parties have rebuked the Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court for reversing Roe v. Wade and overturning [...]

President Biden's (https://prospect.org/economy/2024-12-16-biden-from-the-middle-out-and-bottom-up/) piece in the Prospect provides a fair, accurate, and impressive summary of all that he accomplished. A question that will perplex historians for some time to come [...]

Byline: Ed Kilgore The reaction among Democrats to (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-time-person-of-the-year-interview.html) Donald Trump's return to power has been (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/15/trump-presidency-liberal-media-resistance-00189655) significantly more subdued than what we saw in 2016 after the mogul's first [...]

For the Balkinization Symposium on Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, (https://www.amazon.com/Americas-New-Racial-Battle-Lines/dp/0226834042) America's New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Carol Nackenoff I reflect on [...]

Byline: Nia Prater Compared to many of his fellow Democratic leaders, (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-big-win-was-also-a-win-for-eric-adams.html) Eric Adams continues to stake out a far less combative approach to President-elect (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-time-person-of-the-year-interview.html) Donald Trump. 'I'm not [...]

A lot of people read these columns who might not know about, or fully appreciate, the organization publishing them. Since its founding in 1990, The American Prospect magazine has been [...]

The IRS has gradually rolled out a program to allow Americans to directly file taxes with the IRS. It's designed to make filing taxes simpler and easier. A group of [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F829664a4-dc47-4d33-a24e-f26eff732d81_1576x864.png) How about that Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on mass deportations? We wrote a play-by-play, but it ended up being like 3,000 words long, so how about instead we trim [...]

Hollywood mega-producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, who served as the co-chair of President Joe Biden's reelection campaign, isn't crying a river over the Democrats losing the 2024 election. In fact, Katzenberg on [...]

The leading advocacy group for protecting Americans' Social Security benefits has drawn a red line for Democrats, anticipating a fight over the landmark social insurance program not unlike George W. [...]

It's hard to think of a time when the Democratic Party was more bereft of real leaders. As the losing presidential candidate, Kamala Harris is not held in warm regard, [...]

The Democratic Party collapsed this November in no small measure because of the widely held perception that the party is run by an out-of-touch gerontocracy. Voters view the party this [...]

“The first step of defiance is the hardest,” said William Kristol in [I.The Bulwark]. And “Senate Republicans just took it” by rejecting Donald Trump’s initial pick for attorney general, Matt [...]

Trump is nominating GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to be his Secretary of Labor. She's a political moderate who's backed a pro-union bill that many Republicans don't like. That's earned her [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F871f050c-2c40-41af-ba8a-fd79bffea10d_950x757.jpeg) 1913 cartoon by ‘TAD,' (https://loc.getarchive.net/media/the-road-to-dividends-1) Library of Congress, public domain. A brief paragraph in this NBC News story about (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-eye-tax-breaks-border-funds-clean-energy-cuts-trump-return-rcna181927) Republicans' plans to extend expiring Trump tax cuts (and [...]

Two states lost Democratic trifectas in the 2024 elections. Minnesota has (https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2024/11/lame-duck-trifecta-action-via-a-special-legislative-session-minnesota-dfl-leaders-signal-theres-no-such-plan/) not convened a special session to take advantage of the final moments of Democratic control, though lawmakers did [...]

Byline: Marc Lutz WASHINGTON (AP) A tax break for millionaires, and almost everyone else. An end to the COVID-19-era government subsidies that some Americans have used to purchase health insurance. [...]

As Donald Trump (https://www.wonkette.com/p/gop-not-really-playing-hard-to-get) continues to assemble his (https://www.marvel.com/teams-and-groups/masters-of-evil) Masters Of Evil cabinet, elected Republicans have to keep telling everyone how each pick is a 'winner.' Be it groveling cowardice [...]

Most US House races were called on Election night or in the days after. But the contest between GOP Rep. John Duarte and Democrat Adam Gray remains too close to [...]

The first question on the economic agenda for the incoming Republican majorities in the House and Senate is “how large the tax-cut package will be,” said Mark Niquette and Enda [...]

More often than not, efforts to fight corporate power come from the left flank of the Democratic Party, and have ever since progressives spawned the regulatory state in the early [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6c1ec678-4fde-47df-b476-6f804b71d55b_1000x540.png) Many times over the last nine years, we have asked ourselves the big question: Is our media finally learning its fucking lesson about Donald Trump? We regret to inform [...]

TLDR Republicans secured House majority, completing trifecta with Senate and White House Trump won re-election and named Matt Gaetz as Attorney General nominee Fairshake PAC backed over 50 winning candidates, [...]

Jesse Watters weighed in on the presidential election's impact on the upcoming holidays on Monday, saying that while MSNBC has been crowing about how Democrats would be right to distance [...]

Democratic National Committee women's chair and Kamala Harris surrogate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Li) Lindy Liunloaded her frustrations to (https://www.thewrap.com/trump-fox-news-brian-kilmeade-alec-baldwin-rob-reiner-leave-country/) Fox News on Saturday, saying the Harris campaign was a '$1 billion disaster' and [...]

Dahlia Lithwick [I.Slate] Ever since Donald Trump took over the Republican Party, said Dahlia Lithwick, Democrats and never-Trump conservatives have been calling on the courts and the press to save [...]

Claire McCaskill got teary-eyed on MSNBC thinking back on Kamala Harris' 'inspiring' career in the wake of her presidential election loss. While on MSNBC watching the vice president's concession speech [...]

Former President Donald Trump bested Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Trump won largely by breaching Democrats' 'blue wall.' The ex-president will now return to the White [...]

Republicans are projected to retake the majority in the US Senate. That puts an end to four years of Democratic control. It's not unexpected. Democrats were mostly on defense thanks [...]

Byline: Adina Genn Mike Pence is staying out of this year's presidential election. 'I could never support the Democrat ticket,' Pence said as the guest speaker of the Long Island [...]

VCs are lobbing cash at the presidential election and key congressional races, FEC data shows. While most VCs favored Democrats, a16z's crypto giving dwarfed all other donations. The top individual [...]

Barry Diller suggested Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump due to 'rejection' by the Biden administration. He also told Michael Wolff's podcast that Musk was motivated by 'a form of megalomania.' [...]

That it has taken two natural disasters -- Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton -- for some Republicans to realize that some government functions need to be above politics is enraging, [...]

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide to Donald Trump, said shes deeply perplexed by the Republican partys blind allegiance to her former boss. Appearing on MSNBCs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-08dgJw-lI) Morning Joe [...]

The Republican presidential ticket highlights the story of JD Vances capitulation or transformation or masterclass in B.S. to now worship Trump as the story of the Republican Party in these [...]