In first for Congress, US House passes bill to establish DC as the nation's 51st state, but it faces insurmountable opposition in the Senate
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Actually, can we tell which US states will be swing states in the election?
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Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, voter registration is way, way down
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Today’s elections in Kentucky and New York are high-stakes for the progressive movement
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Pew Research Center's political typology series
1999 edition 2005 edition 2011 edition 2014 edition 2017 edition (Interactive version) It's really interesting and pretty useful to know how the 2 US parties are split and which voting blocks have...
2017 edition (Interactive version)
It's really interesting and pretty useful to know how the 2 US parties are split and which voting blocks have dissappeared and emerged over time and some blocks don't really fit all too well in the 2 parties (most notably the religious left). This also serves as a kind of model for what a multiparty US might look like.
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What we know about Joe Biden’s possible Vice Presidential picks
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Trump’s latest firing seems to have violated four democratic values
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The obscure US Supreme Court case that could be used by the Republican Party to gut the First Amendment
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How to reform the police
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Finns aghast that Donald Trump could think their country is part of Russia – allegations in former US adviser John Bolton's White House memoir mocked on Finnish social media
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Supreme Court rules against Donald Trump’s attempt to end DACA, a win for undocumented ‘Dreamers’ brought to US as children
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How Donald Trump corrupts everyone around him; for most of Trump’s aides, the only good move is not to play
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Joe Biden campaign ramps upcampaign staffing and posts US electoral college map
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Meet the Romney-Gary Johnson-Bloomberg voter who’s embracing Black Lives Matter
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The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age
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US to penalize war crimes investigators looking into American troops
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US on path to widespread political violence
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Black Lives Matter mass movement spreads internationally: US ruling class on the defensive
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The New York Times admits key falsehoods that drove last year’s coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods peddled by the United States, its media, and the New York Times itself
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How do we change America?
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The guardrails are off the US Military: It’s no longer guaranteed that the Pentagon will resist unlawful orders from the President. And the rot is deeper than you think
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Why Republican senators do not challenge US President Donald Trump
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Pennsylvania sweats over vote-counting fiasco
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President? Why not? Says a man at the top.
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Donald Trump says he's the 'law and order' President, but his response to George Floyd protests could cost him
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Former US Secretary of Defence James Mattis denounces President Donald Trump, describes him as a threat to the Constitution
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A conversation with President Obama: Reimagining policing in the wake of continued police violence
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Mike Mullen: I cannot remain silent
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Andrew Yang has endorsed Mike Broihier, an asparagus-farming progressive, in his Democratic Senate primary contest
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Trump's "law and order" rhetoric won't help him like Nixon in 1968
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How accurate have US Senate polls been, and what could that mean for November?
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The US is tearing itself apart because its political system has failed
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Riots are the American way: The US was founded on revolutionary blood; the Civil War took 400,000 lives and the civil rights movement was a reaction to white violence
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The injustice of this moment is not an 'aberration'
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1968 and 2020: How they resemble each other and how they don't
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How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country
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Donald Trump is the Howard Stern of the 2016 US election
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The Karen in Chief
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The decline and fall of the spectacle-commodity economy
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How accurate are state polls? And what could that mean for the US Presidential election in November?
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The crisis within conservatism: Since the 80s, the right has increasingly relied on media bubbles, wedge issues, resistance to social change and making electoral participation harder to hold power
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We need to speak honestly about the GOP’s evolution into a conspiracy cult
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Bernie Sanders' changing position on immigration explained
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Yet another political map simulator
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Will the millennial left make peace with the "lesser evil" of Joe Biden? It's complicated
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Strategic hot spot Greenland sparks global tug-of-war – US has always seen Greenland under its sphere of influence, but the island's increasing independence is threatening that
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The corruption of the US Republican Party: The modern GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start
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How the pandemic has silenced the USA's biggest gubernatorial election
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Joe Biden asks Amy Klobuchar to undergo vetting as possible running mate
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Joe Biden answers the web's most searched questions | WIRED Autocomplete Interview
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