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Oversight Democrats should expose how Trump’s bastardization of USPS has hurt the American people—and present a more reliable alternative.

Trump is trying every possible short-term trick to cut diesel prices. None of it will work; he might as well command the tide to recede.

The Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River is on the border between Nevada and Arizona. Credit: Rafael Ciaramicoli/iStock The California Gold Rush was in full swing in 1852 when ...

Hasan Piker speaks at a campaign rally for Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

The largest corporate health care hospitals in the country are consolidating their power and using it to rip off patients, a new study from Families USA shows. Released amid the GOP’s manufactured ...

Patrick Industries announced a merger with its main competitor for selling components for recreational vehicles. A lawsuit alleges that it leverages market power.

Polls show overwhelming rank-and-file support, but Gavin Newsom’s opposition has trickled down to nearly every elected official.

Polls show overwhelming rank-and-file support, but Gavin Newsom’s opposition has trickled down to nearly every elected official.

The combination of farm-state economic woes and Democrats speaking the language of working-class people has residents saying the state is ‘getting purple.’ Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob ...

As Donald Trump’s support collapses, Republican candidates are whipsawed between distancing themselves from their albatross president and keeping faith with the MAGA hard core. As this straddle ...

Yet despite that, many Trump critics still balk at proposals to attack the Court’s power head-on. At a recent conference about liberalism in the 21st century, when asked about Court reform, Bob Bauer, ...