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Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In the spring of 2012, Blake Masters, who was in his final year at Stanford Law, sat in on a computer…

Placeholder while article actions loadAnother set of GOP primaries takes place Tuesday, most notably in Georgia, where incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp will likely hold off a challenge from former senator David Perdue, whose campaign is largely…

Appearing on Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show on Sunday, Rob "Meathead" Reiner said that our country's democracy is "hanging by a thread," at that if Biden AG Merrick Garland doesn't indict Donald Trump, it's "the end of…

On CNN’s Friday installment of New Day, John Avlon reacted to the news that the RNC has withdrawn from the Commission on Presidential Debates with one of his “reality checks” that characteristically featured plenty of…

A left-wing outlet funded by liberal billionaire George Soros whined that the world’s richest man’s plan to purchase Twitter was a threat to democracy. Free Press released a statement April 14 headlined, “Musk's Attempted…

Last year, Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, signed into law one of the nation’s most comprehensive voter-suppression bills, while sitting under a painting of a plantation. It was a fitting metaphor for a man who, as Georgia’s…

Washington obsesses over how many Republicans will vote for the eminently qualified Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown JacksonKetanji Brown JacksonSunday shows preview: US, allies up pressure on Russia; Jackson undergoes confirmation…

In President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, there was no surprise in how much emphasis he placed on the plight of Ukraine in fending off the unprovoked attack launched by Vladimir Putin.…

The Crown Act, a bill meant to prevent the discrimination of one’s hair, failed to pass the House of Representatives Monday. Credit: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via TNS Shanelle White, a second-year in psychology and a member…