>"Who Peter Thiel is does not really matter. What matters about him is whom he connects."

"Sex education is a battlefield over morals and young bodies, and has exposed fractures in American life for over a century"

Forty years ago, when the right wing was first ascendant in this country, the nation was introduced to some exotic characters the likes of which most of us hadn’t seen before: Jerry Falwell Sr.; Pat Robertson; Newt Gingrich; even people _...Read More_

>"What new polls reveal about American priorities"

"Vermont has weathered the pandemic better than any other state, making Phil Scott a surprising star in Bernie Sanders’s backyard."

"Has the Republican Party found its post-Trump ideology?"

"As the value of gold reached new heights last year, those mining it continued to face crippling deprivation and dangerous conditions"

If we lose the fight to protect voting rights, we'll lose everything else, too.

>"Public-health leaders in rural America are turning toward the next and more difficult stage of the nationwide vaccination campaign: persuasion."

>"For Republicans, cancel culture is good for business."

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