Why progressives really may kill the bill  —  Presented by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network  —  With help from Renuka Rayasam and Tyler Weyant  —  PROGRESSIVES' PILGRIMAGE — It is an article of faith among most Democrats that progressives will always cave …

Trump donor: Corey Lewandowski made unwanted sexual advances  —  A Donald Trump donor is accusing Corey Lewandowski, one of the former president's longtime top aides, of making unwanted sexual advances toward her at a Las Vegas charity event over the weekend.

Select Committee Subpoenas Organizers of Rallies and Events Preceding January 6th Insurrection  —  Washington—Today, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson announced that the Select Committee has issued subpoenas for deposition testimony and records to individuals tied to the events and rallies leading …

Kyrsten Sinema Faces a Growing Revolt From Her Former Supporters  —  The centrist senator is key to President Biden's agenda in Washington.  Her positions have angered some Democrats back home.  —  PHOENIX — Jade Duran once spent her weekends knocking on doors to campaign for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema …

Senate reaches deal to avoid government shutdown, Schumer announces  —  Congress racing to prevent government shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that senators have reached a deal on a stopgap government funding measure to prevent a shutdown.

Wake up, Virginia Democrats.  There's serious Trumpist danger ahead.  —  We now have at least three polls that seem to confirm a trend: In Virginia, where a big and important election looms, Democratic voters appear less energized than Republican ones do.  —  This is despite the fact …

Scoop: Milley's blunt private blame for the State Department  —  In a classified briefing with senators on Tuesday, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley directly blamed the State Department for a botched evacuation from Afghanistan, saying officials “waited too long” to order the operation …

Officer-Involved Delusions  —  Cops lie to us.  We should be even more worried when they lie to themselves.  —  The latest episode of The Politics of Everything is about police and fentanyl.  Specifically, it's about what exactly is happening when police officers “overdose” …

Facebook's Documents About Instagram and Teens, Published  —  The Senate holds a hearing Thursday about the social network's impact, prompted by The Wall Street Journal's coverage  —  Facebook Inc. is scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing on Thursday about its products' effects on young people's mental health.

We're Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic  —  A year after the United States bombed its pandemic performance in front of the world, the Delta variant opened the stage for a face-saving encore.  If the U.S. had learned from its mishandling of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus …

Wisconsin Assembly passes ban on teaching critical race theory  —  Teaching public school students and training employees about concepts such as systemic racism and implicit bias would be banned under legislation Republicans passed in the state Assembly Tuesday.

Antisemitic mailer in Virginia legislative race follows a recent GOP pattern  —  Antisemitic stereotypes, tropes and imagery, centuries old, recur episodically in American politics, and not only on the ideological fringes.  Days ago, in a tightly contested Northern Virginia state legislative race …

Manchin: Reconciliation ‘Dead on Arrival’ If It Doesn't Include Hyde Amendment  —  House Democrats have pushed forward in their reconciliation bill with creating a new “Medicaid-like” program that lacks the Hyde amendment, a measure that generally prohibits federal funding of abortion.

EXCLUSIVE: Jailed Marine Who Demanded Accountability For Afghanistan Offered To Resign Honorably But Was Rejected  — Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller offered to resign under honorable conditions but his request was rejected, according to Marine Corps documents exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content  —  The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.  Facebook made the same change months ago.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is taking …

Leader of ‘Atomwaffen’ hate group convicted of five federal felonies for conspiracy to threaten journalists and Anti-Defamation League employees  —  Defendant created threatening posters sent to homes in three states  —  Seattle - The leader of a Neo-Nazi hate group ‘Atomwaffen’ was convicted today …

The importance of repression  —  A little over a half-century ago, the sociologist Philip Rieff announced the “triumph of the therapeutic” with his 1966 book of the same name.  Perhaps because the phrase itself is so striking, it has been widely cited but only rarely understood.

Trump Still Faces a Reckoning in New York  —  Court documents and interviews indicate that the Manhattan District Attorney is accumulating evidence of pervasive tax fraud.  —  Last Monday, eighty days after their first courtroom appearance in a case known as The People of the State of New York v …

VP Harris to student who accused Israel of ‘genocide’: Your truth must be heard  —  US Vice President Kamala Harris applauded a student who accused Israel of “ethnic genocide,” saying “your truth cannot be suppressed.”  —  During a discussion with students about National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday …

Oklahoma Welcomes Hundreds Of Afghan Refugees — Despite The State GOP's Objections  —  In a cavernous warehouse in Tulsa, Okla., Kathy Clarke is digging through a big produce crate filled with bedsheets, keeping a tally on a clipboard.  —  “They're bringing in a bunch of stuff and then we're sorting through it,” Clarke says.

More in U.S. Vaccinated After Delta Surge, FDA Decision  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of U.S. adults who report being vaccinated for COVID-19 jumped to 75% in September, after three months when the figure languished at just under 70%.  An additional five percent of adults say they plan …

Tennessee parents say some books make students ‘feel discomfort’ because they're White.  They say a new law backs them up  —  Battle over how race is taught in classrooms heats up in school district  —  Williamson County, TN (CNN)Robin Steenman pulled her daughter out of public school over a mask mandate last year.