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The messy intersection of Dred Scott and the birthright citizenship case
It is easy to forget just how terrible the Dred Scott decision was....
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Congress should empower states to fix benefit cliffs
A U.S. Senate committee recently discussed a decades-old federal policy trap that punishes poor families for getting a raise: social safety net-benefi...
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How the media created Graham Platner, then destroyed him
The strangest part of Graham Platner's story was the media's willingness to pretend he really was the working man he impersonated....
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Congress should share, not shield, US artificial intelligence tech
China has unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer, LineShine, which was able to bypass U.S. export restrictions by using a network of CPU standard ...
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Allowing Russia back into the Olympics undermines what the games represent
The International Olympic Committee has provisionally lifted the 2023 suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee, allowing Russian athletes to partic...
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Federal funding and science doubled life expectancy. We can't do more with less.
We are at dangerous risk of turning back the clock on the strides we’ve made in public health....
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Til debt do us part: The coming collapse of the American wedding industry
The traditional wedding has become a luxury purchase — one that’s quickly pricing out the average couple....
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NASA mulls sending a nuclear-powered Mars rover to the moon
Such a proposal represents outside-the-box thinking for NASA, which is becoming more common under Isaacman’s leadership....
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Trump's Board of Peace is all hat, no cattle, to no one's surprise
The Board of Peace, then, is best understood as a paradigmatic example of a grandiose, self-serving, bait-and-switch public relations strategy that wa...
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Democrats and democratic socialists should unite for election victories
Democrats must unify around winners of primaries across the ideological spectrum and focus on opposing Trump, solving the affordability crisis, and ke...
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America’s AI revolution could end in disaster
Big Tech companies are spending billions to build AI data centers across the country, creating temporary jobs for blue-collar workers while draining l...
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The ‘pragmatic’ Democratic ticket the GOP does not want to face in 2028
Crunch time is rapidly approaching for both the Democratic and Republican leadership. The 2026 midterms are now less than four months away. The result...