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Last month, twelve Democratic senators signed a letter from the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders to Secretary of State…

But what do you expect them to do, exactly? goes the usual refrain when one points out the uselessness of supposedly…

After joining the majority on a raft of right-wing decisions aimed at crippling organized labor, abortion access,…

Congrats to the Democratic Party for ceding the moral authority to make corruption a campaign issue, all to protect…

I’m not sure there’s a better possible illustration of “not up to the challenges of the political moment” than…

Here is a tweet from the official account of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, one of the major unions…

Ben Howe, a longtime conservative media veteran and former Red State contributor (until the site’s owners purged the…

If you’re visiting New York, you really ought to ride the ferry to Staten Island. You can’t find a better free…

Farewell, Paul Ryan, you smirking fraud. Thank you for fucking off back to Wisconsin, to be with your family, at…

Scott Pruitt is crooked. This is inarguable, or at least it would be if so many people weren’t professionally or…

There has been a tremendous amount of good reporting done on Cambridge Analytica, the shady political consulting…

Civil society requires the toleration of the expression of opposing viewpoints, no matter how personally…

Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo today reports on the torrent of criticism, both external and internal, that the New York…

As Senator Marco Rubio was grilled by teens last night, scores of actual professional journalists asked themselves…

Last week, The Intercept’s Lee Fang and Spencer Woodman published a story about how the family of U.S. Secretary of…

One fun fact about America’s endless war on drugs is that there is one—really only one—success story: Quaaludes.

Everyone agrees that delivering the official opposition party response to the State of the Union address is a…

This week, Senators Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., went to the White House to discuss immigration…

Billionaire hedge funder Tom Steyer has been a major Democratic Party donor for many years. One thing that happens…

Sure are lots of reporters going out and interviewing Trump voters in places where Trump won. Looks like that’s…