Jeff Sessions, the U.S. attorney general and a racist Keebler elf, issued a memo on Friday directing federal…
Emma Roller
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Senior politics reporter at Splinter.
Women make up 51% of the United States population but just 19.4% of Congress (and, of course, 0% of American…
Muslim Americans won a hard-fought victory on Thursday against the New York Police Department over what advocates…
Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump dismissed Syrian refugees fleeing horrific violence as a “Trojan…
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This piece is part of Splinter’s series The New Guard, where we interview progressive candidates who are running in…
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Young people of color have been trying to tell us the story of their trauma caused by gun violence for years. We…
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