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Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"The uniparty": Dems need a realignment

Charles Derber, Yale R. Magrass
President Donald Trump winks during a meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the Oval Office of the White House on October 02, 2019 in Washington, DC. The two leaders will reportedly discuss 5G wireless technology and European and Arctic security during bilateral meetings and later hold a joint news conference in the East Room. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's looking worse in the Rust Belt

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Street in Allentown residential district, Pennsylvania, USA (Getty Images/iStock)

The "urban renewal" lie

Anthony DiMaggio
A student riding a bicycle on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (AP/Tony Dejak)

Why the conservative hate for Oberlin?

Keith A. Spencer
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President Donald Trump speaks to the nation in his first-prime address from the Oval Office of the White House on January 8, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Kevin Dietsch)

Four things to watch in Trump's SOTU

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Claire McCaskill; Josh Hawley (AP/Salon)

Making sense of Missouri

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Betsy DeVos (AP/Alex Brandon)

Education may propel the Blue Wave

Jeff Bryant - Independent Media Institute
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Trump wants to bail out farmers

Matthew Rozsa
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Don't reason with Trump's die-hards

Jeremy Binckes
(Ashley Murray)

Millennial mayor's big plans in PA

Ashley Murray - Salon Young Americans
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Trump's rust belt support gone

Taylor Link
(AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Arne Dedert/)

Trump's awful new frontier

Bob Hennelly
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A line of people trying to register in a priority book to take a voter registration test in Selma, Alabama, Feb. 17, 1965. (AP)

Leonard Steinhorn - BillMoyers.com
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Elizabeth Grossman - In These Times
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Ignore Unions at your peril

Bob Hennelly
(Reuters/Rebecca Cook)

Sean T. Posey - BillMoyers.com
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Michelle Wilde Anderson - BillMoyers.com
FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, Rep.-elect Debbie Dingell, D-Mich. speaks during an election night rally in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File) (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Brendan Gauthier
Former President Bill Clinton as his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets her running mate, Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.,and his wife Anne Holton, after speaking at the New Yorker Hotel in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, where she conceded her defeat to Republican Donald Trump after the hard-fought presidential election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Brendan Gauthier
Donald Trump speaks to the National Guard Association of the United States, Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, in Baltimore. (AP/Evan Vucci)

no passes for stereotyping

John Russo, Sherry Linkon - BillMoyers.com
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Hillary Clinton (AP/Andrew Harnik)

The value of talking politics

John Light - BillMoyers.com
FILE - In this July 23, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by her running mate, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks at a rally in Miami. The Democratic National Convention speaker’s lineup has highlighted an increasingly diverse country that could soon elect the first female president as successor to its first black chief executive. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) (AP)

Welcome to the East Side

Sherry Linkon - BillMoyers.com
Donald Trump (Reuters/John Sommers)

Trump and the electoral map

Paul Rosenberg
Donald Trump (AP/Charles Krupa)

Unequal, oligarchic madness

Edward McClelland
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