Trump and McConnell Move With Unseemly Haste to Fill RBG's Just-vacated Seat | Opus Dei's Leonard Leo Gets his Sixth Pick to Stack the Supreme Court | Has the Press Learned Anything After Billions in Free Advertising to Elect Trump in 2016?

September 20, 2020 - Jim Manley | Caroline Fredrickson | James Fallows

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A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Jurors Quit the Trump Trial as the Criminal Defendant Tests the Gag Orders | As Billionaires Try to Kill the NLRB, the UAW Makes Gains in the South
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April 18, 2024 - Illia Ponomarenko | Scott Horton | Steven Greenhouse

The Prologue to the Trump Criminal Trial Underway in Which AG Barr Went Out of His Way to Protect "Individual 1" | Is Mike Johnson Serious About Aiding Ukraine or Following Trump and Putin's Orders? | Biden's Tax Plan in Contrast to Trump's Giveaway to Billionaires
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April 17, 2024 - Rebecca Roiphe | Anders Åslund | Chuck Marr

A Look Inside Iran as Its People Wait For Israel's Retaliation Which Could Lead to a Wider War | The Symbiosis Between Israel's Hardline PM and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei | An Assessment of Today's Oral Argument That Could Result in the Supreme Court Undoing Charges Against Trump and the J6 Insurrectionists 
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April 16, 2024 - Assal Rad | Mansour Farhang | Claire Finkelstein

Biden Meets With Iraq's PM Over Concerns That US Troops in Iraq and Syria Are Vulnerable if Israel Retaliates Against Iran | The First Day of Trump's NY Trial and the Possibility of a Trumpster on the Jury Causing a Mistrial as Happened in the Bannon "We Build the Wall" Fraud Case | The Record Numbers of Election Officials Quitting Under Threats From the "Stop the Steal" Lies  
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April 15, 2024 - Adam Weinstein | Jennifer Taub | Joshua Ferrer

Iran's Theatrical Response to the Israeli Strike and the Fear of Netanyahu Escalating | Finally the Architect of the Far-Right Takeover of the US Judiciary | An Assessment of the Trump vs Biden Records of Achievement
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September 20, 2020 - Jim Manley | Caroline Fredrickson | James Fallows

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