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Congressional Republicans are moving to restrict all federal funds to Planned Parenthood until a House committee completes an investigation into allegations that the nation’s largest abortion provider has harvested and sold fetal body parts.

“Over the last week, we’ve seen multiple videos showing its employees brazenly discussing the harvesting of aborted babies’ tissue and organs, but

The political war over the debt ceiling is back. And the drama looks poised to play out much as it has in the past: with partisan rancor and brinkmanship.

The Treasury Department on Friday began taking preliminary steps to extend the length of time before breaching the federal borrowing limit, which technically will be reached Sunday when a congressionally imposed suspension expires.

Thanks to Michael M. for highlighting Matthew Yglesias's Cassandra prophesy at Vox: "American Democracy is Doomed." In the piece, Yglesias warns that political polarization will sooner or later trigger "a collapse of the legal and political order" in the United States. "If we're lucky," he adds gloomily, "it won't be violent." You don't have to be a seer to see that the federal government is

The 2020 presidential candidate showed his brand of democratic socialism could have traction in Trump country

Here’s video of Sanders getting booed out of the auditorium unexpectedly cheered at every turn by they Fox News town hall audience.

How do you think a Sanders-Trump presidential debate would play out? Getting ahead of ourselves, you say? Maybe so. What other candidate on