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In a more just world, her killers would be charged. In our world, grand juries are given extraordinary instructions not to second-guess police officers....

The shift to online education is worsening inequality. These schools have lessons that could help....

Several Republican lawmakers are pushing back on President Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he......

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden late Wednesday pushed back on President Donald Trump's remarks that suggested he would not commit......

Unless Postmaster General Louis DeJoy gets in the way....

I just want to say that I knew exactly what Trump meant when he said this: He doesn't care about the people who died of covid because to him, they're nobodies. And of course, a lot of them are Black and brown. Which makes them even more invisible ...

Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, says the president should forfeit his office over not committing to the peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election. Sen. Booker also calls out his GOP colleagues who don't condemn Trump's remarks....

The circuit court judge had barely finished reading the shockingly abbreviated list of charges handed down by the grand jury, when the carefully worded legal explanations began. After six months of investigation and testimony, only a single officer will f...

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Here's Alysin Camerota talking to Benjamin Crump this morning about the shocking verdict handed down in the Breonna Taylor case yesterday. But one of the things no one seems to be talking about? Daniel Cameron, the state AG. As a former police reporte...

Earlier this week, I was working on an article that claimed Joe Biden had better results in state polls than in national polls. Then on Wednesday, the inevitable happened. Biden had some excellent results in national polls, including 10-point leads in hig...

We're back to the old 2016 question about Donald Trump: Just how seriously and literally should you take him?...

Donald Trump didn't simply refuse to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses in November. He admitted to one of his plans to overturn the election results. "Well, we're going to have to see what happens," Trump said when first...

The board — which has the power to overrule Mark Zuckerberg on content decisions — will start up as soon as mid-October....

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is no stranger to the big moment. Last season, he tied for the NFL lead in both fourth-quarter comebacks and game-winning drives, adding to a career resume that already has him zooming up into Hall of Fame terri...

House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Wednesday night called on Republicans working in the Trump administration to resign......

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The Labor Department reported on Thursday morning that 870,000 unemployment claims were filed in the week ending September 19....

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Wednesday that a grand jury decision not to charge three police officers in the......

Voting rights lawyer Janai Nelson lays out a possible path forward....

Sloppy, purely partisan arguments are likely to prevail....

Despite the best efforts of Trump's henchmen and maybe a Russian agent or two, Sen. Ron Johnson's "Hunterghazi"; report turns out to be a nothingburger. But just like with Benghazi, Republicans will probably continue pretending there's ...

Conservatives have been complaining bitterly that Facebook and other social media companies only censor and erase their views, but the facts show they are ones being exalted to the stratosphere while Liberals are shown the door. The crying, whining and ho...

The Seattle Police Department is investigating the stomach-turning footage from Wednesday night's protests for Breonna Taylor....

Instead of reducing disparities, the system makes them worse. Here are five ways to change that....

The two Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse , and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader , are now available. Information about the books, including how to order, and special offers here . "This fine collection of work by Mr. B...

What Senate Democrats are learning from Mitch McConnell....

The same voters who helped Kyrsten Sinema win could boost Mark Kelly, too....

The Lawfare Project succeeded in campaigning for Zoom and YouTube to cancel a Palestinian event featuring Leila Khaled, a convicted hijacker of an Israel-bound flight in 1969....

After a $600 jobless benefit expired, President Donald Trump went around Congress with a $300 replacement. It's about to run out, but recipients are still struggling....

Oh! More Things I Know... Senator Mitt Romney supports a still-unannounced Supreme Court pick by an impeached president he voted to remove from office for—and I quote—"an appalling abuse of the public trust, [and] a flagrant assault on our...

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has refused calls to expand mail-in voting in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic, was sued Wednesday by prominent members of his own party....

President Donald Trump offered to send federal law enforcement to crack down on protests in Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday night......

This is how elections are treated in Ankara and Moscow....

Democratic nominee Joe Biden has advertised no public events on a day when Trump will make appearances in two states key to his reelection fortunes....

The president again refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses to Biden in November. Joe Scarborough asks if Republicans in Congress will speak out against this?...

President Donald Trump's refusal on Wednesday to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power if he loses to Joe Biden in November is leading America towards a dark place during a year of incendiary political tensions....

Republicans have shown themselves this week to care not a whit about hypocrisy when there's a Supreme Court justice on the line....

Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., discusses a new bill to curb presidential abuses....

Bill Barr is convinced the country is betraying its founding—and that it's up to him to stop it....

The president again refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses to Biden in November. The panel discusses....

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Biden's visit and a Supreme Court battle helps the Democratic nominee woo Wisconsin voters....

The president again refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses to Biden in November. Dartmouth professor Brendan Nyhan discusses why this moment in U.S. history is a 'five-alarm fire.'...

Foreign policy should work better for America's middle class....

The president again refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses to Biden in November. The Atlantic's Barton Gellman writes about how Trump could throw the election into chaos and subvert the result....

Scenes of protest in cities around the country Wednesday night....

Brian Bartels' new book, "The United States of Cocktails," captures the American bar scene on the cusp of the coronavirus pandemic....