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After Donald Trump spread dangerous lies about the safety and security of our elections Thursday night, Sen. Ed Markey sounded a call to action for all Americans. “Trump must be impeached for undermining and subverting our free and fair elections,” Markey posted on social m...

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Crooked Timber - the dispensable nation: updated;

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Seeing the Forest - on Nader, 24 years later.

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For a while there, Michael Cohen was the resistance’s favorite redemption story—the man who turned on Trump, went to prison, and came out swearing he was one of us. This week he quietly told on himself. Where Cohen just showed up, who he now admits he’s made peace with, an...

“A federal judge declared Friday that the Trump administration can’t cancel grants based on new rules or goals established after the fact — in a blow to its efforts to terminate billions of dollars already promised,” Politico reports.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro sits down for an interview with the mayor of New York City.

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