Anyone that thinks Social Security poses a budget problem must believe military spending poses a much bigger problem.
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At the very least, it must stop the Trump family immunity deal that he devised and signed.
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Not even Supreme Court immunity can guarantee the president won’t face accountability over his corruption.
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The oyster farmer is a muscled Homer Simpson — the blunderingly caring lummox doing his best, whom we’re culturally predisposed to hug and forgive while he figures it all out.
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After a weekend of escalation, the Houthis launched missiles at Israel and vowed to disrupt shipping in the Red Sea.
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Strip away the moralizing and the sequence is obvious: an inconvenient insurgent, internal material weaponized by his own side, a Republican-linked source and a calendar tuned to a removal-and-replace statute.
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In Stadsleven vertellen redacteurs en lezers in maximaal 1000 tekens een verrassende anekdote over Brussel.
Duchka Walraet is een Brusselse auteur en is projectverantwoordelijke voor de bouwsector. In haar tweewekelijkse column beschrijft ze de stad als een zinnelijk organisme.
The late Lawrence Korb spent the latter part of his life fighting for cuts to the Pentagon budget.
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In Geneva, governments are negotiating the first binding global standard that codifies protections for gig workers and regulate their AI bosses.
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Washington may view these talks as a standard business transaction, but history has taught Tehran that a compromise with the West is a trap.
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A big tent ‘No ICE in the Cup’ coalition is harnessing the energy surrounding the games to imagine a more free and democratic United States.
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It wasn't its renowned correspondents or former executive producer. And it certainly wasn't the viewing public.
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Landslide election results favoring Mayor Lurie's allies and picks point to a changed San Francisco.
‘We’re living in Daniel Lurie’s America’ — and most San Franciscans are pleased
The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days.Two weeks ago, a series of repeated Ukrainian drone attacks blasted apart a Russian vocational school’s dormitory and campus. The bombs killed 21 students and injured more than 60 others.The attacks occurred before 4 a.m. on May 21, killing many students in their sleep. […]
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The right-wing media magnate controls a growing information empire in France, but you can’t be a religious kingmaker in a secular country.
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Thrust into the spotlight during the O.J. Simpson trial, the LAPD detective who died last month became a generational symbol of racist policing and a divided country.
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If voters rebuke Lurie on Prop. D and dump one or both of the sitting supervisors, a mayor who has walked on water would have to learn to swim
Lurie and labor are on a collision course. Tuesday’s election may determine when it comes.
In Stadsleven vertellen redacteurs en lezers in maximaal 1000 tekens een verrassende anekdote over Brussel.
Markwayne Mullin’s threat to cancel flights to blue cities is an instant classic of Trumpworld theater.
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If the administration was serious about reducing fraud and the deficit, it would help the IRS collect the $600 billion in taxes that go unpaid each year.
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Luxury travel epitomizes the inequality that exists in the tax and travel systems.
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How much brinkmanship and near-catastrophe will it take before real talks resume?
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Bernie Sanders and AOC have introduced a law to regulate AI. But its solutions are no match for the scale of the problem.
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California’s Billionaire Tax Act is a needed reminder that we can raise revenue by restoring tax progressivity at the very top.
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Corporate media have been reluctant to use clear, direct language to characterize U.S.-backed Israeli land grabs in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon.
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It is time for the party to stop coddling “good” oligarchs while punching left and to reject the validity of the entire billionaire class.
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Students are loudly booing references to AI at commencement speeches across the country. As they should.
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