Political
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Who does California’s hyper-partisan gas tax fight hurt?
Keeping up with your California representatives felt impossible before. Now you can watch them like a hawk: Sign up for…
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Failure of US-Iran talks was all-too predictable – but Trump could still have stuck with diplomacy over strikes
Three rounds of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran failed to persuade President Donald Trump that a solution to…
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Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences
The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S.…
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Despite massive US attack and death of Ayatollah, regime change in Iran is unlikely
After the largest buildup of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, American and Israeli military forces…
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Massive US attacks on Iran unlikely to produce regime change in Tehran
After the largest buildup of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, American and Israeli military forces…
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Trump administration losing credibility with judges and grand juries – a former federal judge explains why this is ‘remarkable and unprecedented’
The word “unprecedented” is getting a workout after a grand jury in Washington on Feb. 10, 2026, rebuffed an attempt…
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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy
In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the…
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How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy
Stephen Miller’s January 2026 announcement to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers – telling them that they have “immunity to perform…
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Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE America Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted Feb. 11, 2026 to approve the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act – or SAVE…
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Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?
On Feb. 7, 2026, Chasity Verret Martinez won a special election to fill a vacant seat in the Louisiana House.…
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