Politics

MORNING GLORY: The Supreme Court officially closes the books on another term

Teaching Constitutional Law is a joy, not a job — except for the 11th Amendment and the "Dormant Commerce Clause" cases and materials. The law school classroom is also a great vantage point from wh...

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Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.The woman, a...

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Platner says he is ‘taking the time to reflect’ on his candidacy

Maine U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Graham Platner said Monday he is “taking the time to reflect on the best path forward” for his candidacy minutes after POLITICO reported that a woman who dated ...

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Khanna and Gallego withdraw Platner endorsements

Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Ruben Gallego rescinded their support of Graham Platner on Monday, with Khanna additionally calling for the Democratic nominee to drop out of the Maine Senate race.It’s a si...

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Maine’s Democratic Party leadership calls on Platner to drop out following POLITICO report

The leaders of Maine’s Democratic Party are calling on Senate candidate Graham Platner to withdraw from the race, after POLITICO reported Monday that a woman who he dated said he forced her to have...

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A ballooning problem: Weather warnings face rising risks from budget cuts

Early in the evening of April 13, the skies over central Kansas darkened as a sudden severe storm developed, hurling baseball-sized hail across three counties and producing two tornadoes.That type ...

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I Changed My Mind About Small-Dollar Campaign Donors

Colorado’s rural Fourth Congressional District is Republican territory. In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried it by 18 percentage points. Yet Eileen Laubacher, a former Navy rear ...

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Up next for the DSA? Two major swing states.

It's hot outside. But the DSA is hotter.Fresh off major primary wins in Colorado and New York, the Democratic Socialists of America is looking to prove that it can translate its momentum beyond dee...

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What Rahm Emanuel’s Upcoming Israel Speech Reveals About Democrats

Rahm Emanuel is in Israel this week to deliver a speech designed to be a thunderclap. The combination of message and messenger should produce a loud echo.The message is that the war in Gaza and shi...

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How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry

Every nation sustains itself with mythmaking. This is why Augustus commissioned Virgil to write The Aeneid at the moment the emperor was transforming the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire, why t...

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The ‘Consumer Socialism’ Trap

This past January, in his inaugural address, Zohran Mamdani memorably promised to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” In the parlance of the Democratic ...

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Mullin’s mark on DHS: Ending the drama Noem unleashed

Three months into Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s tenure, he is succeeding in his pledge to get his department out of the headlines.Mullin and his deputies have adopted a lower-profi...

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The Gaza genocide has killed liberal Zionism

The Gaza genocide has killed liberal Zionism Submitted by Ussama Makdisi on Wed, 06/24/2026 - 09:57 ...

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How Hakeem Jeffries is handling the most divisive issue in Democratic politics

House Democrats are fiercely divided over a proposed cut to Israel aid. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hasn’t so far tried to unite them.Lawmakers were set to weigh in on the matter last week befo...

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The midterms are months away. The scramble to get on Congress’ tax writing committees has already started.

A giant wave of departures is set to hit Capitol Hill’s tax writing committees in the next Congress, jumpstarting the competition to fill some critical gaps in institutional knowledge and ideologic...

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Trump’s MAGA Inc. is sitting on $350M. Republicans want to see it.

President Donald Trump is trying to boost Republicans’ midterm prospects by branding Democrats as communists, implementing a fragile truce with Iran, and touting plummeting gasoline prices.But some...

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McMorrow suspends campaign for Michigan Senate seat

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow announced Sunday that she is suspending her campaign for U.S. Senate, leaving Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed to battle for the Democratic nomination for ...

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For July 4th weekend, historians offer perspective and hope

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin urged Americans to keep in perspective the nation's problems.Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview that aired Sunday, Goodwin said that no matter how tro...

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s curious resurgence

The Trump administration seemed on the verge of shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau earlier this year after trying to fire its staff, terminating its office lease, ending nearly ...

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NCAA president sees path forward for reform legislation

NCAA President Charlie Baker defended Congress’ effort to regulate college athletics Sunday, saying that powerful conferences are making a mistake opposing the legislation.The two largest groupings...

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Poll: The political right has staked a claim on patriotism across the West

Patriotism has become partisan.It doesn’t matter that people across the ideological spectrum are equally likely to say that they themselves are patriotic. New international polling shows that when ...

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