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"This bill puts at risk health care for over a million people, billions of dollars for Illinois and tens of thousands of jobs."

While a protracted legal battle seems likely, it probably won’t be too long before Assange joins Chelsea Manning in an American prison, a warning to future whistle-blowers that those who embarrass the powerful will face severe consequences, no matter how long it takes.

Despite President Obama’s urgent warnings in Alaska that climate change could “condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair,” he seems to have curbed his climate ambition.

Some tips for Americans who would like to follow the president-elect’s example.

By having no constructive response to any of the monumental crises now convulsing America, Trump has abdicated his office.

Here’s what I’ve learned: Academic and activist jargon and concepts obscure more than they clarify, and alienate more than they attract people to the cause.

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Penn.) called it "a textbook example of abuse of power and reckless disregard for the rule of law – and it's no 'joking' matter."

Trump’s victory and DeVos’s voucher advocacy could motivate Republican supermajorities to cut further from education in an effort to move public education into the private sector.

There are strong reasons for liberals as well as progressives to oppose Gorsuch.

It’s up to all of us to do what we can to end this Dark Age. And to vote like America’s life depends on it. Because it does.