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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy speaks during a Get Out The Vote rally with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on October 28, 2021 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Polls have Murphy leading Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli heading into Election Day on Tuesday. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

Murphy tries to break jinx on N.J. Dems

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Published 4 years ago

Murphy likely to hold his seat, but Democrats' struggle to connect with their base is visible across the state

Reproductive Rights Protest Outside The Supreme Court Hearing On Texas Abortion Law Arguments In Washington D.C., Nov. 1, 2021 (Jeff Malet Photography)

GOP sharpens its abortion ban defense

Amanda Marcotte
Published 4 years ago

The Republican defense of the Texas abortion law at the Supreme Court assumes women are too dumb to handle choices

Members of the NYPD congregate in Times Square near a police precinct (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NYPD protests — then caves — on vaccines

Jon Skolnik
Published 4 years ago

The city's largest police union previously warned a mandate would lead to "fewer officers on the streets"

A campaign sign for U.S. President Donald Trump lies beneath the water in the Capitol Reflecting Pool, near the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

Republicans in Texas fed up with audits

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Published 4 years ago

No more "audits," the billboards, sponsored by Republicans for Voting Rights, demand

Congressional Progressive Caucus members Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talk to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 30, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House progressives push against Manchin

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Published 4 years ago

"Joe Manchin's opposition to the Build Back Better Act is anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant"

Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Do Americans even want the truth?

Chauncey DeVega
Published 4 years ago

Republicans have thoroughly rewritten the history of Jan. 6 — are the media and public too exhausted to resist?

Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on February 3, 2021. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sounding the first alarm on COVID-19

Gregory Zuckerman - Undark
Published 4 years ago

A Shanghai scientist faced an agonizing decision after his team mapped the genome of a new coronavirus from Wuhan

Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

Developing countries against "net zero"

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Published 4 years ago

Without faster decarbonization and more funding, rich nations risk losing the developing world’s trust

Protesters gather on the second day of pro-Trump events fueled by President Donald Trump's continued claims of election fraud in an to overturn the results before Congress finalizes them in a joint session of the 117th Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Many Republicans now ready for violence

Matthew Rozsa
Published 4 years ago

New PRRI poll finds direct links between Trump's Big Lie, far-right media and support for potential violence

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)speaking to members of the press as they arrive at the U.S. Capitol after a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on June 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Sinema: Face of the new corruption

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Published 4 years ago

What happened to Kyrsten Sinema? The real issue is what happened to American politics after Citizens United

US Senator James Lankford (L) and US President Donald Trump (C) listen as US Senator Christopher Coons says a prayer during the National Prayer Breakfast on February 7, 2019 in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Just say no — to prayer breakfast

Jonathan Larsen - The Young Turks
Published 4 years ago

Freedom From Religion Foundation asks Congress to drop "nonpartisan" annual right-wing recruitment festival

Anti-abortion demonstrators hold a protest outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis, Missouri, May 31, 2019, the last location in the state performing abortions. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Nothing godly about outlawing abortion

Serene Jones
Published 4 years ago

As a Christian biblical scholar, I see how conservatives are distorting our sacred text for their political goals

(Illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Panuwach)

New challenges brought on by Texas laws

Bekah McNeel - The Texas Tribune
Published 4 years ago

Screenings for fetal conditions, or even viability, occur long after Texas' new abortion laws ban terminations

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., argues with Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., off camera, during by a Build Back Better for Women rally held by Democrats on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol on Friday, September 24, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

BUSTED: MTG may have violated the law

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Published 4 years ago

BUSTED: First-term GOP congresswoman violated federal law

"The Book of Boba Fett" (Disney Plus)

Watch "The Book of Boba Fett" trailer

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming
Published 4 years ago

The bounty hunter takes over Jabba the Hutt’s old criminal empire on Tatooine and ushers in a new era of "respect"

Kal Penn (Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)

Kal Penn comes out, reveals engagement

Kylie Cheung
Published 4 years ago

The actor and former Obama administration official discusses his 11-year relationship in his new memoir

Lee Jung-jae in "Squid Game" (Noh Juhan/Netflix)

Squid Game: Love letter to unified Korea

Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Published 4 years ago

What the west doesn't understand about Netflix's hit show is that much of it is a critique of the US influence

COVID-19 new lambda variant (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Can safe UV lamps kill COVID-19?

Karl Linden - The Conversation
Published 4 years ago

Scientists have shown that safe UV light might be able to eliminate COVID-19 from a contained environment

Paul McCartney's Author Photo (Photographed by daughter Mary McCartney in Sussex, England, 2020)

McCartney’s “Lyrics”: A flawed feast

Kenneth Womack
Published 4 years ago

Edited by Irish poet Paul Muldoon, this book is worth it for the illustrations alone

Halloween candy granola (Mary Elizabeth Williams)

This 3-ingredient granola has candy

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Published 4 years ago

Chocolate for breakfast? Of course

Exterior view of a Walmart store (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images)

The deadly pathogen sold at Walmart

Nicole Karlis
Published 4 years ago

A bottle of aromatherapy spray that contained a dangerous bacteria called Burkholderia pseudomallei was recalled

U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron speak at a G7 summit on June 12, 2021. (Getty Images)

G20 is "abysmal" on vaccines and climate

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Published 4 years ago

"The bottom line is that this summit failed to deliver much of anything for people, planet, or prosperity"

Joe Biden and Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Manchin hits the brakes on Dems' deal

Matthew Rozsa
Published 4 years ago

Manchin's now demanding requirements for the reconciliation bill that he doesn't hold for the infrastructure bill

Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barret (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can Texas' abortion ban survive SCOTUS?

Kenneth Tran
Published 4 years ago

The lawyer defending Texas' abortion law faced tough questioning from Trump's appointed justices

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