How William Barr Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Help Trump Win

Former DOJ officials spoke about the attorney general’s efforts to undermine voting and his potential to unleash an “October surprise.”

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Rebuilding the Economy Will Require Joe Biden to Think Very Differently Than 2009

James K. Galbraith

It is a delusion to think that merely injecting money will bring back the happy mix of jobs and incomes we’ve lost in the Covid-19 pandemic.

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How William Barr Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Help Trump Win

Peter Stone

Former DOJ officials spoke about the attorney general’s efforts to undermine voting and his potential to unleash an “October surprise.”

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Doorbell Cameras Like Ring Give Early Warning of Police Searches, FBI Warned

Sam Biddle

Two leaked documents show how a monitoring tool used by police has been turned against them.

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Senate Report Shows What Mueller Missed About Trump and Russia

James Risen

The final Senate report provides damning evidence of the counterintelligence threat posed by Russia in Trump’s 2016 campaign.

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Ed Markey Beats Back Senate Challenge From Joe Kennedy

Rachel M. Cohen

Rep. Kennedy felt he could “leverage” a Senate seat better than the progressive incumbent, but Massachusetts voters didn’t buy it.

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Online Lenders Are Preying on Desperate Borrowers and Could Trigger a New Consumer Financial Crisis

Alyssa Katz

The surge in fintech lending may have dire consequences for American consumers.

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Massachusetts Hopeful Alex Morse Couldn’t Overcome Homophobic Smear

Ryan Grim, Daniel Boguslaw, Eoin Higgins

An ad attacking Morse’s sex life, funded by supporters of corporate Democrat Rep. Richie Neal, ran through the Democratic primary.

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Joe Biden Promises a Moral Renewal for the U.S. Here’s Where He Can Start.

Murtaza Hussain

To take seriously Biden’s claim to moral leadership in foreign policy, he should apologize to the victims of the post-9/11 wars.

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Amid Coronavirus, Trump Moved to Expel Immigrants — But Border Patrol Didn’t Test Any of Them

Malaika Tapper

Documents show Border Patrol tested zero detainees this spring — contributing to opacity around coronavirus in immigration detention.

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Greystone Nursing Homes, Whose Executives Gave $800,000 to Trump, Are Epicenters of Covid-19 Deaths

Matthew Cunningham-Cook

Nursing homes operated by Greystone have some of the nation’s highest reported death counts, federal data shows.

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Markey Won. Morse Lost. What Happens Next?

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Ryan Grim talks to Evan Weber and Alex O’Keefe of the Sunrise Movement about this week’s Democratic primaries in Massachusetts.

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Alex Morse

Monday, August 31, 2020

The party establishment tried to smear an insurgent challenger. We caught them red-handed. It's time to face the facts: The corporate media can't be trusted to report fairly on Democratic

Trump Supporters Rush to Defend One of Their Own Who Killed Protesters in Wisconsin

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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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