Biden Taps War on Terror Veteran to Stop White Supremacists

By Spencer Ackerman

Russ Travers is a distinguished veteran of the post-9/11 security apparatus. Is that what the White House needs now that it confronts far-right and white supremacist terror?

By Erin Banco, Scott Bixby, Sam Brodey

The systems to manufacture, distribute, and track vaccine doses set up by the Trump administration are even more broken than Biden’s COVID team feared.

By Asawin Suebsaeng

The twice-impeached former commander in chief has been making phone calls to ask if some GOP lawmakers will vote to bar him from ever again holding the office of the presidency.

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By Candida Moss

If the past has taught us anything it is that failed prophecies and frustrated predictions don’t always mark the beginning of the end for radical social movements.

By Jay Michaelson

The inauguration was a reminder that the religious left has long been a force in American politics and society.

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But the Democrats can’t stop there. Real reforms then have to follow.

As it became clear that Trump was not, in fact, going to suddenly appear and order the arrest of all the Democrats, QAnon believers began to wonder if they had been tricked.

His only real mandate was to be not Donald Trump. He’ll accomplish that on Day One. Then what? Immigration? Not exactly a unifying issue.

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Some 900,000 people filed new unemployment claims during Donald Trump’s last week in office, and the unemployment rate stands at 6.7 percent.

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Jeanine Pirro was reportedly upset when her ex wasn’t on the initial list Wednesday morning, and lobbied Trump to add him at the last minute.

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