The Democratic Senators Hiding Behind Joe Manchin

By Sam Brodey

Manchin has long been a “heat shield” for fellow moderates on the thorniest topics, including the filibuster. He still is, but cracks are beginning to show.

By William Bredderman, Will Sommer

The 1st Amendment Praetorian group has become an on-call security and intelligence team for the most extreme and esoteric of Trumpists.

By Lloyd Grove

During the Democratic primary campaign, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris consistently voiced their support for the Equal Rights Amendment. Now, their administration has gone silent.

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By Sion Bell, Jeff Hauser

Commissioner Charles Rettig’s only response to a blockbuster report about how little the richest pay was to say he’d try to prosecute the leaker.

By Charissa Isidro

He’s stopped talking about how we need to assimilate more and started objecting to portraying us as “perpetual foreigners,” but he’s kept using his identity as a political prop.

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In both political and humanitarian terms, the immigration crisis was already a hot mess. Harris just made it hotter and messier.

"It shows how easily we can be exploited to protect our own story," said philanthropist Tim Gill.

Figures on the right are losing it over what they portray as an outrageous bid by the Biden administration to seize lands from local control. But nothing of the sort is happening.

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 DOOMED FROM THE START

When a covert FBI informant offered to help Seth Aaron Pendley get the explosives for his attack, he responded: “F*ck yeah!”

 A BURNING THING

The rare phenomenon drew an “audible gasp” from viewers on the observation deck of the Empire State Building.

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