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  1. Great Moments From Roberts Court Dissents Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses for a photo in her chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    7 Jul 2014 … Seven dissenting opinions objecting to key decisions by the Roberts Court. Continue reading
  2. Unsanitized: Deadline Day for Pre-Election Stimulus Comes, And Will Go Unemployed and homeless people line up for a free meal and new shoes during a Good Friday event in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 2015. After a year of pumping up their payrolls, US employers sharply cut back hiring in March, in a fresh sign of a slowdown in the world's leading economy. AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2020 … Today is a “deadline” day for whether or not there will be an agreement on COVID relief before the election... Continue reading
  3. Unsanitized: Congress Again Taxes the Time of Benefit Recipients
    12 Dec 2020 … The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) is in the new and it helps gig workers and freelancers, who historically weren’t eligible for unemployment. But, wait, there are some drawbacks. Continue reading
  4. Searching for Truth in an Age of Lies In China, a site that generates fake tweets that look as if they were generated by President Donald Trump are being used to mock the president. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2017 … Let’s give it up for truth. C’mon, a nice hand. It gave us a lot of good years. Back in the day, Truth began with a capital T, and it came straight from God. Then science had a long run Continue reading
  5. Unsanitized: Being Thankful in a Pandemic The First Thanksgiving by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
    11 Nov 2020 … The pandemic has made us a more social people. That sounds paradoxical, given the fact that so many of us have locked away in our homes for the past eight months. Continue reading
  6. What Do You Do When Pat Robertson Takes Back His Blessing?
    12 Dec 2020 … Trumps loyalists drop off at a growing rate. Science get back in place as the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis starts looking into Trump's non-experts. Continue reading
  7. Why the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby Decision Is the New Bush v. Gore President-elect Bush meets with Vice President Gore at Gore's official residence in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2000. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    7 Jul 2014 … Conservatives on the court tried to write a limited decision striking down Obamacare's birth control mandate. But the logic behind their decision opens the door to future lawsuits. Continue reading
  8. Don’t Walk Away From War U.S. Navy Seals train with a SH-60F Seahawk helicopter on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise. October 2001. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Lance H. Mayhew Jr.)
    6 Jun 2014 … No matter how often you cite the use of military force to “stabilize” or “protect” or “liberate” countries or regions, it is a destabilizing force. Continue reading
  9. “Quick, Look Over There”
    9 Sep 2020 … Trump and his loyalists would likely prefer people not to notice that his poll numbers continue to be bad. For him to convince people that a loss for him means the election has been stolen, he has to make people Continue reading
  10. Unsanitized: The Return of Checks Checks Checks
    12 Dec 2020 … With three days to go before government funding expires, the leadership in the House and Senate finally got in a room together to discuss a year-end deal that packages an omnibus spending bill and coronavirus aid. And what progressives are fighting for in Continue reading