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West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s problem is twofold. First, he fetishizes bipartisanship during one of the most hyperpartisan eras of modern American politics. Second, he enthusiastically supports anti-majoritarian mechanisms in national governance, such as the filibuster, that pose an existential threat to the Democrats’ legislative agenda, if not the Democratic…

On Tuesday, Virginia and New Jersey will hold their primaries. As the only two states to hold gubernatorial elections in the year after a presidential election, they will be important indicators of the electoral environment heading into the 2022 midterm elections. Now, both Virginia and New Jersey voted for President…

MONTREAL — Hotels and luxury condos have sprung up around the ornate red and gold gate that marks the south entrance to Montreal's Chinatown, towering above the busy dumpling restaurants and mom-and-pop stores. MONTREAL — Hotels and luxury condos have sprung up around the ornate red and gold gate that…

Former President Donald Trump said in a GOP fundraising video that the Republican Party is going to “take back the Senate, take back the House, we’re going to take back the White House – and sooner than you think.” He added without hesitation, “It’s going to be really something special.” The…

As Israel prepared to remove Palestinian families to make way for settlers in East Jerusalem, and launched airstrikes on Gaza that demolished homes and killed hundreds of Palestinians, including scores of children, Democrats in Washington experienced what one pollster called a “tectonic” shift. Newly elected representatives such as Cori Bush…

It cannot be said enough that—beyond installing Federalist Society–approved judges and lowering taxes for corporations and the rich—today’s Republican Party simply has no ideas and no intent to govern. Needing an explanation for why its constituents’ lives are getting worse, it turns to regurgitated culture-war rhetoric—tyrannical, gun-taking socialist Democrats, Big…

Getty Images https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/f5/7d/neymar-brazil-2020_1rjwayc3wzq4e1n7pi6gd8upyq.jpg?t=-612430151&w=500&quality=80 Qualifying to the World Cup from South America is one of the most grueling paths to the biggest stage in global soccer. Each of the 10 nations plays a total of 18 matches over the course of the qualification process. Despite the March 2021 match postponements due to…

Thundersky Justin Young, left, and Daryl Laboucan drum and sing healing songs at a makeshift memorial to honour the 215 children whose remains have been discovered buried near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., on June 2, 2021. COLE BURSTON/AFP/Getty Images Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair…

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that Republicans are still hoping to reach a bipartisan agreement with President Joe Biden on an infrastructure package of "maybe $1 trillion" that would be fully paid for. "I don't know whether we're going to reach an agreement or not," McConnell said during…

Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews has made a career out of a certain image of American politics. It’s a nostalgic vision of the heyday of bare-knuckled ward bosses in and around city halls and orotund lords of patronage on Capitol Hill, of brash Irish-American presidents and speakers of the house…