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Tax Cuts in the Bag, Paul Ryan Lustfully Eyes Welfare “Reform”
The House Speaker cannot imagine a better follow-up than gutting the social safety net. By Bess Levin. (Dec. 21, 2017)
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What I Saw Inside Roy Moore’s Barn Burner
The message made zero sense. People lapped it up. By Charles P. Pierce.
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Roy Moore Reemerges for an Election-Eve Rally, and Good Lord, Was It Weird
The rally in a remote barn featured Steve Bannon, a dig at Ivanka, a reference to Moore’s Jewish lawyer, and several inflatable alligators. By Olivia Nuzzi.
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Roy Moore Emerges from Self-Imposed Exile to Chat with 12-Year-Old Girl
The candidate for Alabama's Senate race—who's been accused of sexually pursuing teens in his 30s—sat down with Millie March to talk about border security. By Allie Conti.
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Wells Fargo sanctions are on ice under Trump official - sources
The new acting head of the U.S. consumer finance watchdog is reviewing whether Wells Fargo & Co should pay tens of millions of dollars over alleged mortgage lending abuse, according to three sources familiar with the dispute. By Patrick Rucker, Pete Schroeder.
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Vote yes on GOP tax reform, and let the cash start trickling down!
GOP tax reform bill may be voted on this week. By Rex Huppke.
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Alabama governor: We’d rather have a child molester in the Senate than a Democrat
The Republican Party, from the state to the federal level, is making it painfully apparent just where their values lay.
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‘One of the most secretive, dark states’: What is Kansas trying to hide?
Kansas may be the most secretive state in the country, a Kansas City Star investigation shows. And it’s only gotten worse under Gov. Sam Brownback. By Laura Bauer, Judy L. Thomas and Max Londberg.
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Trump judge nominee, 36, who has never tried a case, wins approval of Senate panel
Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee. By David G. Savage.
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Rich Americans Are the Winners of Republicans’ Mad Dash to Cut Taxes
The GOP's hasty plan, to be released Wednesday, looks to be a gift to the wealthy and a gut punch to everyone else. By David Dayen.
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Welcome to Idaho. Now go home
The “whiteopia” of North Idaho has become one of the most desirable places in the West for conservatives to relocate. So why is the local GOP tearing itself apart — and who’s responsible? By Anne Helen Petersen.
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It's not just Trump, it's the whole GOP that calls 'fake things true and true things fake'
Jeff Flake's attack on the president applies more broadly to GOP tax policy.
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How Republicans Imperil Their Own Tax Cuts
Their House and Senate budget resolutions are miles apart—which endangers reconciliation, which endangers tax cuts, which endangers what’s left of the GOP agenda. By David Dayen.
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The Danger of President Pence
Trump’s critics yearn for his exit. But Mike Pence, the corporate right’s inside man, poses his own risks. By Jane Mayer.
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Flint’s River of Poison
Three years after disastrous levels of lead were found in the Michigan city’s drinking water, the people of Flint are living — and fighting — a new nightmare. By Claire Ballentine and Ben Sklar.
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Tim Murphy resigns from Congress
"It was Dr. Murphy’s decision to move on to the next chapter of his life, and I support it," Speaker Paul Ryan says in a statement. The anti-abortion Republican was embroiled in scandal after reportedly encouraging a woman he was romantically involved with to terminate a pregnancy.
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The GOP’s Twisted Reality, Where Guns Are a Right But Health Care Is a Privilege
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson gave away the GOP game on health care at a high school assembly recently. Contrast to his party’s position on guns. By Michael Tomasky.
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In Leaked Tape Mitch McConnell Admits The Koch Brothers Are Running The Republican Party
In a leaked audio tape of the Koch brothers top secret June 2014 retreat, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) not only admitted that the Republicans would be lost without the Kochs, and revealed who the real power is in the GOP.
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'Red Alert' Sounded: Trumpcare Is Back, More Brutal and Deadly Than Ever
The Trumpcare zombie has risen from the grave to terrorize the American public once more.
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The GOP’s Evolution into a True Fascist, White Nationalist Party Is Inevitable
Even after Trump is long gone, candidates will rise to prominence with hot rhetoric and noxious policy notions. By Stephen Markley.
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