The Senate punted a vote on the crypto industry’s top priority to September, which doesn’t bode well for the industry’s legislative agenda or their key alliance with certain moderate Democrats.

Socialism has not been this popular in America in at least a century, but how it’s defined, and who defines it, matters.

In Minnesota’s Second Congressional District, pro-Israel groups are spending millions on Matt Klein. But Kaela Berg’s supporters partnered with the same groups in the past.

Harriet Tubman is a legend and deserves her plaudits, but Still, who gave material support to Tubman, helped at least 800 slaves secure freedom, and was nicknamed the “Father of the Underground ...

The leaks could have been one of the biggest international scandals of the century. But in a world where every information zone is flooded with a barrage of digital detritus and slop, it barely ...

In at least three states, Democratic Senate candidates are standing down in favor of independents who might beat Republicans.

Instead of passing through bankruptcy, insolvent life insurers have all their liabilities—in particular the policyholder claims—paid for by state guaranty funds.

An array of super PACs is trying to muscle through Melissa Hernandez in a low-turnout special election for a Bay Area House seat. Melissa Hernandez, a Democratic candidate for Congress in California’s ...

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Under Eric Adams, the city and the NYPD attached video surveillance to free internet routers. Plaintiffs allege this violates their civil liberties.

It is a central instrument of class rule and subject of class struggle. If money appears as a “magic mirror,” its true power comes from those who wield it, and from the illusion that power emanates ...