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McConnell repeats the same obstructionist playbook from Obama era: Can Biden ignore the trolling?
Heather Digby Parton
Republicans are concern trolling President Biden on his promises of "unity." They should be ignored
The government Donald Trump left behind
Chris Morran
Trump’s successes in cutting taxes, rolling back regulations and reshaping the judiciary will cast a long shadow
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lashes out at reporter as Democrats ramp up expulsion campaign
Jon Skolnik
A reporter was ejected and nearly arrested after asking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a question at her town hall
Joe Biden outlines ambitious climate change agenda: “Environmental justice will be at the center”
Matthew Rozsa
Biden is also establishing climate change as a national security priority
Kevin McCarthy to have “conversation” with Marjorie Taylor Greene over support for killing Dems
Igor Derysh
QAnon-promoting Georgia Republican liked posts calling for Democrats to be executed, spread unhinged conspiracies
The FBI, terrorism and the progressive left: This is a job for Kamala Harris
Iveta Cherneva
The FBI remains obsessed with progressives, when right-wing violence is the immediate threat. Harris can help
While America was sleeping
Alfred McCoy
Waking from a four-year fever dream to find global power gone
Author Rick Perlstein on the challenge ahead: “Biden knows that he is managing a dying regime”
Chauncey DeVega
Author of "Nixonland" to Joe Biden: "There is no sweet spot" that will "turn off the spigot of reactionary rage"
U.S. exceptionalism is dead: long live U.S. uniqueness?
Brian K. Muzás
After the shameful events of Jan. 6, can we reconcile U.S. exceptionalism with the invasion of the Capitol?
“Jim Crow relic”: Progressives push Chuck Schumer to dump Senate filibuster
Common Dreams staff
A "tool of segregationists" that has "outlived its usefulness": Activists mount a push against Mitch's roadblock
What happens to the Resistance after the world’s loudest science denier leaves the White House?
Shannon Osaka, Kate Yoder
Trump's unintended legacy: a fiery climate movement
A historian from the future looks back: What will be most remembered of Trump’s presidency?
Matthew Rozsa
Historians will remember Trump as an aspiring dictator who failed because he was too dumb to understand COVID-19
After years of way too much Trump, White House reporters need to shift focus
Dan Froomkin
Political media must pivot from "What did the president just say?" to a focus on what's actually getting done
McConnell’s plan to derail Democrats’ takeover — and nuke the economy — is already in full swing
Amanda Marcotte
As McConnell kicks off his plan to filibuster Biden's presidency, his tool for obstruction needs to be taken away
“It’s over and nothing makes sense”: QAnon believers struggle to cope with Biden inauguration
Igor Derysh
“Well I’m the official laughing stock of my family,” one QAnon follower said after Joe Biden was sworn in
Trump’s children and former staffers to get Secret Service protection at taxpayers’ expense: report
Jon Skolnik
The ex-president's order of Secret Service protection for his adult children and top loyalists will cost millions
Why did Army repeatedly deny that Michael Flynn’s brother was involved in Capitol riot response?
Igor Derysh
“HE WAS NOT IN ANY OF THE MEETINGS!” one official insisted — before Charles Flynn admitted he was in a key meeting
President Joe Biden offers us reasons for hope, at last — but hope can be hazardous
Norman Solomon
New presidents too often "make us the dupes of our hopes." We need hope — but we need to face inequality head-on
Meet Amanda Gorman, the powerful poet laureate who voiced our hope for a unified, better America
Jon Skolnik, Ashlie D. Stevens
The 22-year-old from Los Angeles is the youngest inaugural poet in American history
“Have a good life”: Trump leaves office — finally — amid reports he plans to start own party
Igor Derysh
Trump was talked out of pardoning himself and family members, but still wants revenge against Mitch McConnell
Steve Bannon scores last-minute Trump pardon — but could still face state criminal charges
Igor Derysh
Trump granted clemency to more than 140 people on his last night — but not himself, his family or Rudy Giuliani
Trump is gone. Now we face the real question: Does Biden have what it takes to save us?
Amanda Marcotte
Biden's inauguration is low on fun and heavy on grim determination, but that's what a country deep in crisis needs
“President Biden” is both a reassuring and worrisome look at a leader built from “the Obama halo”
Melanie McFarland
The pre-inaugural episode of the PBS news documentary series lets us know what kind of man we've voted into office
Who is Victoria Nuland? A really bad idea as a key player in Biden’s foreign policy team
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies, Marcy Winograd
A Cold War true believer who sabotaged Obama's foreign policy, Nuland is a huge risk at the State Department
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