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Wiretap: The real story on repeal and replace is why GOP can’t seem to...

Why are so many Republicans reluctant to pass Republican versions of healthcare reform? It seems they're learning the same thing that Democrats learned when...

Wiretap: The tweaked Senate healthcare bill still has many more losers than winners

Republicans have tweaked their healthcare bill in order to win over skeptical senators. Let's just say it may not be working. Rand Paul and...

Wiretap: Does the timeline in the Trump Jr.-Russia story suggest coincidence or conspiracy?

Three hours after Donald Trump Jr. sent the email confirming that he would meet with the "Russian government attorney" about dirt on Hillary Clinton,...

Wiretap: Trump Jr. reveals he met Russian lawyer seeking Clinton dirt; now what?

Once again Trump Jr. changes the story on his recently disclosed meeting with a Russian lawyer. He met her along with Jared Kushner and...

Wiretap: The problem we’re facing with North Korea is not that Kim is a...

Now that North Korea has launched an ICBM that could reach Alaska, and possibly Hawaii, the biggest concern should not be that its leader,...

Wiretap: Trump faces first big international test in North Korea — where all the...

The easy part was confirming that North Korea's missile launch was an ICBM, a missile capable of reaching as far as Alaska. The next...

Wiretap: Frederick Douglass’s 1852 July 4th address does amazing job of offering hope

If you're searching in vain for dignity on the Fourth of July in the time of Donald Trump, The New Yorker's David Remnick advises...

Wiretap: GOP pols learn to ignore Trump’s past statements because they know Trump does

Republicans have learned an important lesson during the healthcare battle, writes Ezra Klein in Vox. They don't have to worry about anything Trump has said...

Wiretap: While GOP stuck in bid to repeal Obamacare, Dems moving on to single-payer

While Republicans are stuck trying to repeal Obamacare, unable to even get the latest Trumpcare bill onto the Senate floor, Democrats are moving away...

Wiretap: Supreme Court will hear Colorado baker’s religious freedom fight over gay couple’s wedding...

The Supreme Court has decided it will hear the appeal from a Lakewood baker who, citing his First Amendment right of religious freedom, refused...