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Faking a Mandate
UPDATE: Republicans threatening to shut down government to ram through Trump's defense secretary nomination https://medium.com/@michaelarnovitz/faking-a-mandate-a379c802e540#.oo2nd31nm In 1903 the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party broke into two competing...
Action Alert: Reject Dangerous Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
Anti-Muslim rhetoric currently receives widespread media coverage. In the face of a massive refugee crisis and growing instability across the Middle East and North Africa, the public discourse often eschews nuanced distinctions about extremism and misappropriation of...
The House Science Committee’s tweets are an embarrassment to science
It’s not just misleading to tweet about bad science. It’s dangerous. The collapse in Arctic ice formations is already putting major cities in the crosshairs of sea level rise, and leaders in the federal government need to act. Unfortunately, Lamar Smith (R-TX), an...
Sarah Palin Under Consideration for VA Secretary
Half-term former Governor Sarah Palin is under consideration for secretary of veterans affairs, a close Palin aide and a top Donald Trump transition official told ABC News. The aide said that the Tea Party darling recently told Trump transition officials, "I feel as...
Trump administration building a pretext to roll back voting rights on a national scale?
Oh, what a tangled web we weave.. In addition to insulting law-abiding voters everywhere, these lies about fraud threaten the foundations of American democracy. They have provided the justification for state voter-suppression laws around the country, and they could...
Despotism. It can’t happen here, right?
"An elective despotism is not the government we fought for" Thomas Jefferson The two chief characteristics of despotism -- restricted respect and concentrated power -- are defined and illustrated in this short 1946 film from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Two of the...
What now, you ask? Work for the ACLU of Virginia!
We have been honored and a bit overwhelmed by the outpouring of support since the presidential election from people who want to make a difference as we embark on what ACLU national Executive Director Anthony Romero has called "the fight of our life." Based on the...
The place where “everything is true and nothing is true.”
Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future in an ex post facto world During the days immediately before and after the presidential election that shocked much of the world, The New Yorker's David Remnick was spending time with...
Here’s What Happens When 45% of Voters Stay Home
A week ago at this time, pundits were speculating that Paul Ryan had so alienated the right wing with his tepid support for soon-to-be-presidential-loser Donald Trump that he might not retain his job as Speaker of the House when a new Congress is sworn in early next...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the Chopping Block
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a U.S. government agency that makes sure banks, lenders, and other financial companies treat you fairly. Most recently, the CFPB ordered Wells Fargo to refund thousands of customers who were charged fees for unauthorized...
