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“Wisconsin’s ‘War On Voting’ Leads To Real Consequences”: Thousands Of...
Wisconsin’s April 5 primary is likely to be important for all kinds of electoral reasons, but the day will also be significant in terms of the voting process itself: it will be the first big test of...
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“Arguments Both Indefensible And Dishonest”: Senate Republicans Debunk Their...
Senate Republicans have had about a month to come up with a coherent rationale for imposing a blockade on any Supreme Court nominee from President Obama. The fact that they’ve failed so spectacularly...
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“Fulfilling Their Constitutional Duties”: On SCOTUS, Pressure Falls On...
All corners of the Republican Party have made themselves very clear: they intend to, in Donald Trump’s words, “delay, delay, delay” the confirmation of Antonin Scalia’s replacement on the Supreme Court...
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“A Little Noticed Brief”: Justice Department; Clinton’s Email Practices Were...
In the spring, Republicans, a variety of reporters, and much of the Beltway establishment was convinced: there was a real “scandal” surrounding Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation’s...
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“Shutdown Politics Divides GOP”: No Real Precedent For A Party Being...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is ready for an ugly showdown that may very well shut down the federal government at the end of the month, as are dozens of House Republicans. Meanwhile, GOP leaders in both...
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“You Know, The United States Needs More Of This”: In The Race To The Bottom...
Over the weekend, Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to unveil an actual immigration plan. It wasn’t quite what reform proponents were hoping for – Trump’s vision includes...
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“A Big Split In The Republican Party”: Here Comes The Big Intra-GOP Fight...
It’s been obvious for a while that congressional Republicans will be placed in a difficult position if SCOTUS strikes down subsidies for health insurance purchases under the Affordable Care Act in...
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“Fearmongering, Just Before Election Day”: Republicans Want You Scared Of Ebola
Is it possible that some Republican elected officials simply don’t follow the news? Maybe that explains why they don’t mention the 43 people who had been exposed to Ebola in Texas that were released...
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“Life Is Hardly Imitating Art”: Fear May Win Elections, But It Makes...
According to Hollywood, most disasters feature government or institutional figures who try to downplay the scale of catastrophe, at least publicly, in order to prevent mass panic. Rightly or wrongly,...
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“Police In Ferguson Keep Praying And Preying”: The Pandering Religiosity Of...
The Greater St. Mark Church was raided today as St. Louis County Police thought that protesters were spending the night in the church, which has been used as a staging area for protestors. Police have...
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“Offender-Funded Justice”: The Economics Of Police Militarism
Two crucial battles broke out in Ferguson, Missouri, this week. The first began with the public airing of sorrow and rage after the death of the eighteen-year-old Michael Brown, who was shot by a...
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“Borderline Behavior”: GOP Demands Action, Blocks Solutions — And Always...
Listening to Republicans in Washington (and Texas and Arizona) scream about the “crisis” of migrant children arriving from Central America on our southern border, it is puzzling to realize that they...
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“Troubling Questions”: How Much Does Right-Wing Rhetoric Contribute To...
Yesterday, a man and a woman shot two police officers in a Las Vegas restaurant after saying, “this is a revolution.” Then they draped their bodies in a Gadsden flag. According to reports now coming...
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“Why So Many Are Clueless”: Shameful Coverage Of Obamacare’s Real Impacts
If you read my column last week about a Senate hearing that showed how Obamacare has affected Americans, you might have wondered if I was in the same room with reporters who presumably covered the...
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“Actions Speak For Themselves”: Talking About Race Is No Black-And-White Matter
When Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) remarked last week that some of the opposition to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is “maybe he’s of the wrong color,” he was just saying out loud what many...
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“Yes, Opposition To Obamacare Is Tied Up With Race”: A Staple Of Conservative...
Is opposition to Obamacare really about race? That’s the highly charged question that has bubbled up in the last day or so, starting with a Senate hearing and then bursting into the news media. I won’t...
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“No Accountability In The GOP”: A Dejecting Pattern Of Behavior In Wisconsin
Up until fairly recently, Wisconsin’s Bill Kramer was the Republican Majority Leader in the state Assembly. As Rachel noted on the show on Friday, that changed when the state lawmaker was charged with...
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“Republicans Are Losing All Credibility On ObamaCare”: At Some Point, Voters...
Even before President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, GOP critics assailed it as a socialist, job-killing overreach indicative of a government run amok. In the years since, we’ve seen no...
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“A Million Here, A Million There”: Millions Of People Have Health Insurance...
The big number in the news this week was 1.1 million – the number of people who signed up for health insurance through Obamacare’s federal insurance marketplace this year. This is an important figure,...
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“The Three Stages Of Obamacare Acceptance”: It’s Increasingly Difficult To...
Now that Obamacare is clearly moving forward, Republicans are adjusting to a new reality: it may no longer be a realistic option to simply wait until the law collapses under its own weight and vanishes...
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