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Pro-choice Democrat Marilyn Lands flipped a Republican state legislative district in Alabama by focusing on IVF and abortion rights. It’s another sign that reproductive rights are a potent issue in 2024 elections.
As the Myanmar military faces a record level of defections, its control of the country looks increasingly tenuous.
In recent weeks, a deep fatalism has set in among liberals and Democrats. The proximate cause has been the disconnect between President Biden’s terrible poll numbers on the economy and conditions out in the country, which by many economic metrics are quite good, and the toll that has taken on his reelection prospects.The deeper reason for the fatalism, though, is a loss of faith in the power to change that disconnect in perception. There’s an online meme for this—“LOL nothing matters”—which mean
Trump depends on liberals believing that nothing matters. But good news like this should give hope that some facts will matter after all.
A week after the U.S. Senate rejected an "assault weapons" ban the Biden Administration is asking state legislatures to pass it.