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Exit polls report that more than 90 percent of Black women cast their ballots for Biden and Harris, voting as a bloc.

The GOP leadership in Pennsylvania has decisively disavowed moving to seize the power to appoint electors directly under any circumstances. 

There are critical differences between the legal and political landscapes in the 2000 election and today that make it exceptionally unlikely that any of this legal wrangling will matter.

The margin of litigation, the margin of error, and the margin of organizing: The courts probably won’t decide this presidential election, but organizing might have.

The time for doing nothing is over. Democrats must either pack the Court themselves, or prevent Republicans from doing so down the road.

Both Congress and the potential Biden transition team can take steps in advance of inauguration to turn off the flow of ill-gotten funds. 

Voters should go to the polls expecting only to find friendly election workers and fellow engaged citizens.

Trump is laying the groundwork to dispute the valid election results. That’s not hyperbole, Trump has said it clearly.

A look at the new documentary, “The Big Scary ‘S’ Word” in which director Yael Bridge explores how socialist ideas that were once considered radical are now taken for granted by most Americans.

Much of what we deplore today is nothing new: nastiness, violence, intolerance, fraud, twisting the election rules, bashing the government, bias in the media, fistfights in Congress, and even a violent coup in North Carolina. We have seen it all before.

What to do? As in a marriage that’s been bad for decades, perhaps divorce should be considered.

Eighty-two of the 150 channels examined in total had appeared after Christchurch, and as such were focused on preparing for violent action — disseminating instructions for how to build pipe bombs and homemade guns, survivalist manuals for the coming race war, and guides to prepare for committing a mass shooting.

The tyrant’s tell, and Pelosi’s obligation.

President Trump, high school debater.

A President’s words always matter and until the rhetoric changes from the top, America will remain uncivil and on the brink.

If Democrats sweep the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives this fall, they will have an opportunity to repair the nation’s broken systems, not just make new policies.

A court with another conservative nominee is bad news for climate action. Here’s a threat assessment.

McConnell has always honored a straightforward principle when it comes to judicial selection.

Conservatives have been upset about kids reading ‘A People’s History of the United States’ for years, worrying that it stirs up trouble. Now Trump has taken up the cause.

Cops are at the crux of this cultural war of neoliberalism vs. fascism. They are sworn to uphold the constitution and laws of freedom while also operating legal torture chambers and killing people of color. And they are able to hold these two completely contradictory values at the same time, as long as they don't speak or think about it.

Pro athletes have gone on strike before over wages, pensions and working conditions, but these protests are about racial justice. It is no accident that Black players, who have talked about their own experiences being racial profiled by police officers, took the lead in organizing the walkouts.

Fifty shades of chaos is now the paint on America’s portrait, spread by the hands of Putin and Trump, no matter what any investigation may find.

The Republican Party of the 1980s had an appeal, at first.

Trade associations sound innocuous but the term obscures what they really are: lobbying groups that advocate for policies that benefit specific business interests. Among the groups that could potentially qualify for loans under Collins’ and Rubio’s bill are PhRMA, the nation’s top drug lobby, and the American Chemistry Council, which represents big chemical and fossil fuel interests.