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‘Useful Idiots’ Podcast: Stimulus Checks, Larry Summers, Plus Mark Crispin Miller on Academic Freedom
In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie […]
Trump’s Lost Cause
The fight underway to keep Trumpism alive post-presidency has an ugly and worrisome precedent in American history
The Pastor, the Pandemic, and the Political Race of a Lifetime
How a year rocked by Covid-19 and a reckoning around race could propel Rev. Raphael Warnock to become Georgia's first black U.S. senator
Biden Blasts Trump for Delayed Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution
"And the pace of the vaccination program is moving now... it’s going to take years, not months to vaccinate the American people," the president-elect said in a speech
Cory Booker and Tiffany Muller: How the Next Congress Can Improve U.S. Elections and Protect Voting Rights
This year, voters across the country faced a myriad of barriers to casting their vote — a global pandemic, a concerted disinformation campaign waged by the President and his allies and amplified by foreign adversaries, shifting deadlines, hours-long wait times to vote, confusing new rules, voter purges, intimidation, discrimination and more. Despite these obstacles, Americans…
Bernie Sanders: No Pentagon Funding Without a Vote on $2,000 Checks
Sanders says he'll keep senators in Washington — including Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue — on New Year's Eve unless he gets a vote on more Covid-19 relief money
The House Just Voted to Override Trump’s Veto of Defense Spending Bill
Now the legislation goes to the Republican-controlled Senate
Democratic-Controlled House Passes Bill to Increase Stimulus Checks to $2,000
Trump supposedly wants the direct coronavirus relief payments to increase, but getting the legislation past the Republican-controlled Senate is not likely
After Threatening Veto, Trump Finally Signs Covid-19 Relief Bill Into Law
This narrowly averted a government shutdown, which would have taken effect Monday night
Republicans Hit the Sunday News Shows to Blast Trump
"If you convince people that Congress can change a legitimate election and everything was stolen, that there's a Deep State/QAnon theory driving this, that satanist pedophiles run the government. You could see people being driven to violence," Congressman Adam Kinzinger said
Fauci Warns of ‘Surge Upon a Surge’ in Covid-19 After Christmas, New Year’s
The nation's top infectious disease expert shares Biden's view that the "darkest days" of the virus are coming
While in Florida Golfing, Trump Allows Jobless Benefits to Expire for Millions
The president, at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for the holidays, left coal in stockings of the unemployed