Mother Jones

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AT THE HEIGHT of the war on drugs, a few quirks of geography conspired to place Mobile, Alabama, at the center of the action. Interstate 10, which runs through downtown, was a major drug trafficking route, carrying cocaine out west and marijuana back

The Atlantic

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The gender dynamics at last night's debate were familiar: The women waited for their moments. The men butted in.

The Atlantic

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The billionaire climate-change activist has nearly clinched a spot on the debate stage. Plus, Trump delays the rollout of Chinese tariffs and John Hickenlooper mulls dropping out.

NPR

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The 18-term lawmaker takes the title from the late Massachusetts GOP Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers.

The Atlantic

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Updated at 3:56 p.m. The Saudi ambassador to the United States may have quietly returned to Washington, but he’s going to have some trouble getting meetings on Capitol Hill. Prince Khalid bin Salman’s return Wednesday came a little more than a month

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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He was the last of the firsts. That's probably how Richard Gordon Hatcher, one of the nation's first black elected big-city mayors, most often will be remembered. Hatcher died Friday night at age 86 in Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago. He

The Atlantic

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The representative from Hawaii’s campaign has defied expectations, even as she herself remains an enigma. Plus, why the 2020 campaigns could fall for another hack, à la 2016.

NPR

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Pennsylvania, Oregon and Kansas are among the latest states to require face coverings in public settings as COVID-19 cases surge in much of the country. Health officials say masks can slow the spread.

NPR

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Four freshman lawmakers, all minorities, targeted in a series of tweets by the president on Sunday denounced his remarks as racist and responsible for "stoking white nationalism."

TIME

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THEY CAME LIKE LOCUSTS: GREAT IN number and all at once. A year after President Trump’s Inauguration, dozens of books about, by or for the resistance have arrived on shelves, offering everything from empathy for the politically afflicted to practical

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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You can't always get what you want. So said the philosopher Mick Jagger. He said it in 1969, so obviously, he didn't intend it as a comment on the 2018 midterms. But progressives might be forgiven for thinking otherwise. After all, they wanted Andrew

The Atlantic

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The Senate majority leader’s assertion that his election-year blockade of Merrick Garland doesn’t apply to 2020 shouldn’t come as a surprise.

The Atlantic

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Another year in American politics is coming to a close, and what a year it’s been! We saw congressional investigations, turmoil in the administration, debates over consequential policy issues such as immigration and health care, and midterm elections

The Atlantic

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The Amtrak train chartered to carry members of Congress to their annual retreat collided with a truck in Virginia, killing one person in the truck and seriously injuring another.

The Atlantic

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Every time the president ramps up his violent rhetoric, every time he fires up Twitter to launch another broadside against me, my family and I see a surge of vicious attacks sent our way.

FactCheck.org

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Social media posts wrongly claim Democrats voted against the Social Security cost-of-living increase for 2019. Adjustments to Social Security benefits are not decided by lawmakers. The post Social Security Falsehood Circulates Again appeared first on

NPR

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Gov. Ron DeSantis says the portal was designed to frustrate users, "so people just say, oh, the hell with it, I'm not going to do that." Florida has been among the slowest states to process claims.

NPR

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The move to potentially change the names of 44 schools, approved by the school board this week, has sparked debate in San Francisco about its timing and whether the list is overly broad.

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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The Nixon tapes are still in the news! My God, they're still spewing bile, still making America's eyeballs roll. They're as relevant as ever. Donald Trump, it turns out, is merely the inner Richard Nixon, live and uncensored. He's also the inner Rona

The Atlantic

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The president has asked both leading candidates for the job to come to Washington, moved up the announcement, and scheduled it for prime time.

Civil War Times

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Henry Wise (top) served as the 33rd governor of Virginia from 1856–1860 and advocated a number of, for his era, “progressive” reforms. He pushed for tax dollars to improve infrastructure in western Virginia, advocated universal elementary education,

Manhattan Institute

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Seth Barron talks with four City Journal contributors—Rafael Mangual, Eric Kober, Ray Domanico, and Steven Malanga—about former New York City mayor and now presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg’s record on crime, education, economic development, and

The Atlantic

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Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. Congress fled. A mob took the Capitol, took the

The Christian Science Monitor

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During the recent National Week of Conversation, the Monitor moderated a panel discussion on race in Charlottesville. Here's what it was like to take part in the city's continuing efforts to find healing after last year's protests.

Los Angeles Times

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President Donald Trump defended embattled U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama on Friday by trying to undercut the credibility of a woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 16. At a campaign rally just over the Alabama

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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It's anybody's guess who'll be in and who'll be out of our president's cabinet tomorrow. Or whose name he'll be floating next for a top position in these currently less than United States of America. The first and one of the greatest American preside

NPR

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The U.S. education secretary has told public K-12 schools they should use their coronavirus relief money to help private school students, too.

NPR

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Even in retirement, the former Senate majority leader is calling to change the rules. Reid tells NPR the filibuster is obstructing the Senate from tackling big issues like climate change and gun laws.

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - In his sun-splashed home in the Hollywood Hills, Antonio Villaraigosa has been busy writing thank-you notes. A week after the former Los Angeles mayor's loss in the California governor's race, he has penned more than 100 - and has many

Mother Jones

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“My brother saw Anacostia one day when he was nine,” Edward P. Jones wrote in the title story of his 2006 collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children. “The hills, the Anacostia River, the indescribable pleasantness, the way the wind came up over the river