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National Interest Archive

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduces the Medicare for All Act of 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)
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Leftward Democratic drift could get Trump re-elected

What Democrats badly need is substantive moderate push back, on policies that are conceivably achievable: closing tax loopholes or real tax breaks for the middle class.

3 years ago

Attorney General William Barr appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee to make his Justice Department budget request, Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
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Cover-up commandant William Barr: ‘I’ve said what I’m gonna say’

If the full report totally exonerates Trump, as Trump claims, why is his regime so intent on suppressing it?

3 years ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen arrives to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019, before the House Homeland Security Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Kirstjen Nielsen and the high cost of amoral servitude

Nielsen, whose resignation letter went public shortly after Trump tweeted a rote farewell, will forever be known as the face of the Trump regime's border brutality.

3 years ago

Infowars' Host Alex Jones was forcibly deposed under oath on March 14 by the lawyer of Sandy Hook parents, and the entire proceeding — more than three hours long — was posted online last Friday. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
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Fake news fraud Alex Jones suffers his day of reckoning

In my perpetual and often fruitless search for upbeat news, I've discovered the sworn deposition of Alex Jones.

3 years ago

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, March 31, 2019. (NBC/YouTube)
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Health care stupidity is a Republican preexisting condition

Donald Trump is celebrating his fake "complete exoneration" by pledging anew to throw 20 million people off their Obamacare coverage. Is this guy politically stupid, or what?

3 years ago

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., listens as the Democrat-controlled panel pushed ahead with their oversight of the Trump administration at a hearing to examine to examine how the Russian government works to undermine its adversaries, especially the U.S., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 28, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
National Interest
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Adam Schiff tells Trump and his toadies to take a hike

Anyone who's tempted to be cowed into believing that the Barr minimum of the Mueller report is somehow tantamount to total exoneration should watch Schiff deliver the goods.

3 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks to media
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Trump’s new lie: ‘Complete and total EXONERATION.’

Ignore for now what we don't know about the report and bear in mind everything we already know. Because it's all there, hideously so, in plain sight.

3 years ago

(From left) Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke; and Sound Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (Elise Amendola, Charles Krupa, and Charles Krupa/Associated Press)
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The Electoral College is trending. Guess why.

At least three Democratic presidential hopefuls — Elizabeth Warren, Beto O'Rourke, and Pete Buttigieg — are currently calling for the artifact's abolition.

3 years ago

Mayor Pete Buttigieg, of South Bend, Indiana, smiles as he listens to a question during a stop in Raymond, N.H., Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. Buttigieg is weighing a run in the 2020 presidential race. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg (who?!) elevates our civic discourse

"Mayor Pete" from South Bend, Indiana, is a welcome addition to the swelling Democratic roster.

3 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Legislative Conference on March 12, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)
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Is Joe Biden in tune with the times, or past his prime?

In Iowa, where the presidential primary season traditionally begins, a statewide poll has anointed Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner, with 27 percent support.

3 years ago

Fox News mobile app on the display of tablet PC
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Bravo! Democrats refuse to reward Fox News’ propaganda

These debates, which begin in June, should be hosted by legitimate journalistic organizations. Fox News, a font of fact-free agitprop, is demonstrably illegitimate.

3 years ago

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., talks to media during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
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Welcome to the Watergate era 2.0

Some Democrats fear that the committee — helmed by Jerry Nadler, thanks to the midterm surge that threw the House Republicans out of power — is playing with fire.

3 years ago

President Donald Trump hugs the American flag as he arrives to speak at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, March 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Trump’s ‘frightened world’ of the ‘happily stupid’

Trump begins his re-election bid with 90 percent support from the GOP base (despite his demagoguery, lies, and serial failures), and that blind fealty cannot be underestimated

3 years ago

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
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‘Goodfellas’ on the Potomac

Lest we forget, we would not have heard from Cohen today, in a public session, if the midterm electorate had not thrown the House Republicans out of power.

3 years ago

Physicist William Happer arrives for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, NY, USA on January 13, 2017.  (Albin Lohr-Jones/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
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The Trump regime wants to believe the Earth is flat

The Trump regime intends to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is a dire international emergency.

3 years ago

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