Despite being attacked from many sides so soon after it was introduced, the proposed program may be our best hope out of a climate and economic quagmire.
The media is covering it, Republicans hate it, and Democrats won't commit to it. But what is most important is that the public wants it.
The Democrats' chosen challenger had to make sure each point counted and each hit landed.
The agency has a sordid history of using publications and journalists to discredit and dehumanize those it deemed enemies the world over.
Hopes that the Senate would bring the protracted government shutdown to a close was dashed on Thursday.
The year that would have marked King's 90th birthday gives Democrats an opportunity to compare their views on race to those of Donald Trump.
Voiding the act would hurt so many Americans so gravely that even the Republican Party's expert messaging machine might be overmatched.
California offers a testing ground to make broad changes using an approach the GOP has leveraged to the hilt in recent decades.
A record 43 Latinos have been elected to Congress, demonstrating the rising power of the 57 million people of Latin American origin who live in the U.S.
A brazen new power play in Wisconsin reveals the extent to which Republicans are willing to put party over country.
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