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My name is Ally and I just started my junior year in high school. I wanted to write this diary to let everyone know why all my friends and I are supporting Elizabeth Warren and why you should too. Other than my Mom and my Dad, all of my heroes have...

The 2020 Democratic Candidates and Their Coalitions, by Amy Walter, was included in the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup, but there was so much good stuff there it might have gotten lost. It’s really a must-read, and you can find it here. For Daily Kos...

So, Nancy Pelosi won’t allow formal impeachment hearings in the House unless she is sure that the Democrats can drag along at least enough of those pesky Republicans to make for a “Who shot JR?” style finale in the Senate, huh? because it’s so, like...

At the end of 2018, grocery store chain Trader Joe’s announced that it would be making moves to cut out one million pounds of “single-use” plastics in its over 500 stores as soon as possible. Besides getting rid of all plastic bags, the company set out...

The cliched answer for the question of why Detroit lost so much market share is “They ignored the competition”. This is a case of what Matt Yglesias called The Pundit’s Fallacy “The pundit’s fallacy is that belief that what a politician needs to...

Right after the Civil War ended in 1865, enslaved Africans were granted, not just their freedom, but their full rights as America citizens. For a brief, all too brief, period, they made immense progress as they were finally allowed to vote, to run for,...

Last Friday, the Des Moines register published an op-ed from the eldest son of the Donald Trump in which the younger Trump slandered immigrants and blamed Democrats for the death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts. Yesterday, Mollie’s...

This is getting so tiresome and not just from me.  Jax Dem and other Florida Kossacks have said the same thing and those who work our butts off down here in Florida, only to have  some commenters on here  tear us down at almost every Florida post. ...

Sarah Chayes’ 2015 book,  Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security , is a page-turning look at how badly we screwed up in Afghanistan, why, and how we can do better next time.

I don’t like headlines that ask questions, but while there’s no hard evidence given for what’s suggested by this story, the soft evidence is fairly damning. And if is true, it’s beyond unconscionable. You might recall that Saudi Arabia and its...