But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

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Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic congressman and leading liberal who brought new visibility to gay rights and crafted ...

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Pete Babcock began his working life as a high school basketball coach and teacher. He wound up spending 42 years in the NBA ...

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A Republican proposal to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money on security for the White House ballroom has become a political landmine in the Senate debate over funding Immigration and Customs ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Nothing is new and history repeats. When the Supreme Court delivered a death blow to ...

After last week's bipartisan vote in Congress to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history and fund the Department of Homeland Security, Republicans are moving ahead with an approximately $70 billion, ...

On this day (May 6) in 1965, Keith Richards woke up in a Florida hotel room with a guitar riff and the line “can’t get no satisfaction” in his head. He recorded the riff, went back to sleep, and ...