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Before the Texas disaster, Congress and successive presidents ignored demands to fully fund a nationwide system monitoring ...
Trump’s megabill just let pharmaceutical companies keep drug prices high to avoid throttling innovation — but such price cuts ...
As President Donald Trump, surrounded by Republican members of Congress, marked the Fourth of July by signing a bill to cut ...
You can read Shadi Hamid’s op-ed, “A genocide is happening in Gaza. We should say so” here.
Why are Republicans rushing their massive tax cut bill through Congress? What are they hiding? And can it be stopped? As the media focuses on the vote wrangling and dealmaking over specific provisions ...
Democratic Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani ’s mayoral primary victory in New York City has prompted an elite panic, the likes of which we’ve rarely seen: Billionaires are desperately seeking a ...
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David Sirota: How important has public financing been in your race? I mean, it seems to me that Andrew Cuomo would have been able, and his donors would have been able to buy this race without you ...
Through a series of closed-door meetings, overnight votes, and empty promises, House Republicans passed a tax scheme that will kick 16 million Americans off their health care, skyrocket the cost of ...
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A wave of bills in state legislatures across the country aim to classify climate-heating methane gas as a source of “green” or “clean” energy to prevent communities from transitioning away from fossil ...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 Today’s Lever story: Secretive dark money groups are pushing states to redefine methane gas as “clean,” undermining renewable energy ...