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Impeachment Is Over, But Don’t Despair

The Senate failed to do their job — but ordinary citizens can’t fail to do ours.

You might have missed it amid the impeachment coverage, but the president is reintroducing catastrophic Reagan-era disability cuts.

The prospect of a 2 percent tax on wealth over $50 million has rich Americans considering expatriating.

And Republicans are responding just like he predicted they would.

In my 40 years as a lawyer, I’ve never seen a trial flout the basic requirements for fairness so brazenly.

Industry-friendly regulators are letting chemical companies flood the country with toxins. It should be a scandal.

We’ve advanced beyond Little Women’s 19th century gender roles. Let’s get past its outdated moralizing about poverty, too.

Ten years after Citizens United, the damage is broad and deep — but we can still fix it.

We live in a nation where food is plentiful but millions of children experience hunger and food insecurity.

Because God is love?