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Dianne Feinstein is American Politics

Over the course of 52 years in elected office, she believed she could use the system for good. Despite everything, she still does.

What Science Says About Abortion

Overturning Roe won’t stop states from tying abortion access to fetal viability

Forever Toxic

The fight over a tunnel project in Antwerp has revealed that the forever chemical PFOS, made there by 3M, is in the water, the soil, and the people. And now 3M is the focus of a criminal investigation.

Dr. Jill Biden – A First Lady Undeterred

A pandemic. A war. A country at its breaking point. Dr. Jill Biden has faced it all with the grace and conviction that has guided her all her life showing up for her students, her friends and family, the american people, her husband, and herself.

Christopher Alexander's Utopian Blueprint

Imagine a Federation of independent regions. Each of its cities is a mosaic of distinctive, self-governing neighborhoods, where "people can choose the kind of subculture they wish to live in, and can still experience many ways of life different from their own."

Medieval Geopolitics Help Explain Modern Russia and Ukraine

Explanations for Russia's 2022 war in Ukraine often go back to 2014, when the Revolution of Dignity replaced Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovych with a pro-Western government and Vladimir Putin responded by annexing Crimea and sponsoring separatist enclaves in Eastern Ukraine.

Biden Can't Pin Inflation on Putin

If Biden is looking to spread the blame for inflation evenly, he should look in the mirror.

The Weird World of Watergate

Fifty years later, the motive behind the mother of all modern political scandals remains clouded.

Zoning vs. the Good Samaritan

How labyrinthine zoning rules restricted homeless shelters during the pandemic

Break The Revenge Cycle

Modern politics has dragged us back to the "eye for an eye" days. There's one key phrase that can disarm vengeance, though-and it's simple enough a kid can learn it.

Video Game Workers Create First Union At Big U.S. Game Maker

Video game workers at a division of game publisher Activision Blizzard have voted to unionize, creating the first labor union at a large U.S. video game company.

There Has to Be a Backup Plan.

Inside the 2024 soul-searching that's happening in every corner of the Democratic Party-except the White House.

Their Fight Is Our Fight

The truth is kryptonite for authoritarians and oligarchs-in Russia, and here at home.

Wild Goose Chase

Elizabeth Warren's years-long battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.

Lessons Not Learned

How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped

“They're not human beings”

Ukraine and the words that lead to mass murder

Biden Announces Program Offering Discounted Internet Service

President Joe Biden announced that 20 internet companies have agreed to provide discounted service to people with low incomes, a program that could effectively make tens of millions of households eligible for free service through an already existing federal subsidy.

The Woman Who Killed Roe

Marjorie Dannenfelser's single-minded pursuit of an end to abortion.

Blue -or Bluer

In Pennsylvania and Texas, democratic voters face clear ideological choices that could signal the party's direction

In election misinformation fight, '2020 changed everything'

Beth Bowers grew up in the 1960s and 1970s with parents who marched in protests, wrote letters to members of Congress and voted in elections big and small.

An Uncertain Future for Ukrainian Refugees

The majority of the 12 million displaced by the war with Russia may never be able to go home

Why a Wealth Tax Is a Bad Idea

Billionaires are better at figuring out what to do with their money than the government will ever be.

America's Nuclear Reluctance

ON FEBRUARY 14, 2022, Oregon’s NuScale Power signed an agreement with the Polish mining and processing firm KGHM to deploy NuScale’s innovative small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in Poland by 2029.

Ukrainians Find Refuge in Previously Unwelcoming Places

Immigration

William Ruger on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

William Ruger, who holds a Ph.D. in politics specializing in foreign policy, is the newly appointed president of the American Institute for Economic Research. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, he was a prominent voice in calling for U.S. withdrawal from that country. He was picked by former President Donald Trump to be ambassador to Afghanistan, but his nomination was never voted on.

Was Censorship the Greatest COVID Threat to Freedom?

WE’RE NOT JUST fighting an epidemic,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, declared at the Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2020. “We’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus and is just as dangerous.”

11 Insanely Corrupt Speed-Trap Towns

Caught stealing from motorists, these towns disbanded their police forces or even disbanded their governments altogether.

After the War

In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s time for Europe to step up and America to step back.

Zuckerberg Money Won't Be in Next Round of Aid for Elections

The nonprofit that distributed most of the $350 million in donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to election offices in 2020 said that it won’t disburse similar donations this year after backlash from conservatives suspicious that the contributions tilted the outcome of the presidential race toward Joe Biden.

The Price of Complacency

The White House and Congress are fighting over pocket change even though the pandemic is still a threat