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Author Marianne Williamson officially entered the 2024 Democratic presidential primary on Saturday.
American government is designed to have components that are not directly accountable to the public.
To mark a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Galen Druke brings back two experts wh
It's a busy week! The crew looks at what Americans think about aid to Ukraine one year on, how the p
This week Nikki Haley became the first major candidate to challenge former President Donald Trump in
The U.S. shot down at least three unidentified flying objects over the weekend. We’re still waiting
President Biden delivered his second State of the Union address on Tuesday to a newly divided Congre
In this installment of "Model Talk," Nate and Galen discuss a recently published assessment of how o
Americans are spending more and more time alone, and more than a third reported experiencing “seriou
Although much of our elections-related attention is already trained on 2024, there are consequential
In his new book "Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America," Wash
The crew discusses how debates on both the debt ceiling and the future of Rep. George Santos’s caree
Over the weekend, the White House announced that five more classified documents from the Obama admin
As we head into the new year and our attention begins to turn to the presidential primaries, we deci
The crew looks at why it took 15 votes to get Rep. Kevin McCarthy elected House Speaker and what tha
Happy holidays! As we head into the new year and our attention begins to turn to the presidential pr
As the House Select Committee for Jan. 6 publishes its final report, the crew considers what the com
Editor Chadwick Matlin turns the tables on Galen Druke and asks him questions about what he’s learne
As the broader electorate shifted left in 2020, compared to 2016, Latino voters shifted 8 percentage
