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Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse is writing a second book, the Lincoln Journal Star reported Thursday, which will…
Emma Roller
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Senior politics reporter at Splinter.
On Tuesday night, Dan Lipinski narrowly defeated Marie Newman in the Democratic primary to represent Illinois’ 3rd…
The Senate voted on Tuesday not to debate a bill that would have cut off U.S. military support for the Saudi-led…
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“Eat my ass!” a teenage boy yelled at the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Wednesday morning.
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On Thursday, the watchdog group Documented published a list of hundreds of corporations, politicians, and front…
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It’s been 10 years since the financial crisis devastated pretty much everyone besides America’s biggest banks, which…
Since Republicans in Congress passed their sweeping, mind-bogglingly regressive tax legislation in December, people…
Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic, tweeted on Friday:
During the 2016 presidential election, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine touted his experience as a former civil rights…