State election administrators worry about “impossible” provisions in Democrats’ voting rights bill

Senator Amy Klobuchar (Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images)

Is H.R. 1 simply too damn big?

$Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, gives opening remarks at the confirmation hearing for Rep. Debra Haaland, (D-NM) President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. Rep. Haaland's opposition to fracking and early endorsement of the Green New Deal has made her one of President Biden's more controversial cabinet nominees. (Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)$

Manchin learns wrong lessons from Jan. 6

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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT); President Donald Trump (Getty/Salon)

Poll: GOP at lowest level since 2012

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Why we love the billionaire class

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Joe Manchin, Joe Biden and John F. Kennedy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

West Virginia, JFK and Joe Biden

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images))

Did Cuomo misuse campaign resources?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Infrastructure: Progressives demand more

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Dems move a bit closer to filibuster

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The GOP turns their #1 issue into a joke

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Donald Trump | Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dems: Trump appointees delaying stimulus

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View of demonstrators, many with signs, as they participate in the March For Our Lives rally against gun violence, near Columbus Circle, New York, New York, March 24, 2018. Among the visible signs are ones that read 'Who Would Have to Die from Gun Violence Before You Would Support Gun Control?' and 'No More Silence End Gun Violence.' (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Can electoral politics save us?

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The plates used to print the new Series 2001 one dollar bill notes are stored November 21, 2001 at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC. The new dollar bills contain the signatures of U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O''Neill and U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Modern Monetary Theory: Why it matters

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$Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, gives opening remarks at the confirmation hearing for Rep. Debra Haaland, (D-NM) President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. Rep. Haaland's opposition to fracking and early endorsement of the Green New Deal has made her one of President Biden's more controversial cabinet nominees. (Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)$