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A very important note from Brian.

Brian Beutler
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Does RFK Even Lift, Bro?

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Does RFK Even Lift, Bro?

Since Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appears poised to be confirmed in the coming days as the nations’s top health official, and because other, more urgent news has overwhelmed me, I want to home in on something completely different.

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Exclusive: A Stronger Playbook For House Resistance

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Apr 15
Exclusive: A Stronger Playbook For House Resistance

We stand perilously close to a point of no return, where mass action is the only form of opposition that might save the country.

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How Liberalism Sabotages Itself

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Jul 25
How Liberalism Sabotages Itself

The progressive journalist Mehdi Hasan recently participated in an episode of the popular online series Jubilee, which is a bit like speed-dating, but for public political debate.

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Why MAGA Is REALLY Freaking Out About Superman

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Jul 16
Why MAGA Is REALLY Freaking Out About Superman

I’m not a comic books guy, and I’m increasingly not a comic-book movies guy. Including superhero movies. As a kid, I’d watch Christopher Reeves’s Superman whenever I happened upon it channel surfing. In adulthood, I’ve enjoyed Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, Jon Favreau’s

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