Sharply rising prices in 2022 and 2023 made “Bidenflation” a Republican talking point. Inflation, Republicans claimed, was due to a 2021 Democratic spending bill that gave substantial money to people while the US economy suffered the effects of Covid. As this money was spent, prices rose. Reality repudiates this Republican fiction. Presidents have limited control […]

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Of the many currents at the nexus of American religious and political life, Christian Nationalism is unquestionably the dominant force. Christian Nationalists and allied elements of the far right have taken over the Republican Party; purged moderate Republicans from the precinct level as well as their side of the House and much of the Senate; […]

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The campaign to elect Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an independent candidate for president, recently announced it has signatures required to appear on ballots in every state. This news was released a few days before a New York Supreme Court Justice ruled Kennedy had falsely claimed that a friend’s house in Katonah, NY is his “place […]

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Between the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, and the rapid coalescence around Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee, everyone’s rushing to update their political calculus. But there’s one recurring thread that haunts us that people aren’t yet talking about: the debt ceiling, which must be addressed once again […]

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“Now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win there!” Those were Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s last public words, spoken shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Senator Kennedy had just claimed victory over his Democratic rival, Eugene McCarthy, in the hotly contested California primary. […]

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