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Patronage Rules The 'Patronage' Presidency: James Comey's 'extraordinary' testimony on Trump. Common Dreams: "In one of the most potentially damning moments recounted in the memos, Comey describes a private dinner with Trump at the White House on January 27 in which...

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Collateral Damage Russia investigation may reveal aides' excesses. The Atlantic: "As the blast radius of the Russia investigation continues to expand, Donald Trump is facing an unnerving new reality: The fate of his presidency may now hinge on the motley, freewheeling...

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Gerrymander No More Supreme Court strikes down North Carolina's GOP-drawn maps for racial gerrymandering. DailyKOS: "In a major victory for voting rights on Monday, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling issued last year that had struck down 28 of North...

The Unpleasant Impact of an Unserious Budget

Trump's budget means certain pain for most families and big tax cuts for the wealthiest few. But even stranger is that it relies on a set of assumptions that present a fantastical approach to simple arithmetic.

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Health Options Are Democrats becoming the single-payer party? NYT: "At rallies and in town hall meetings, and in a collection of blue-state legislatures, liberal Democrats have pressed lawmakers, with growing impatience, to support the creation of a single-payer...

Is Britain Also Feeling the Bern?

Bernie Sanders is in England to boost Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party’s candidate for prime minister in the snap election June 8. Corbyn is surging in British polls, and running a populist campaign that pledges radical economic reform.

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