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Good Sunday morning! Here’s a meeting that will raise eyebrows. President-elect Donald Trump is huddling with Hollywood power broker Ari Emanuel today. Yes, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s brother. Trump’s meetings start around noon today. Other huddles...

With drive, ingenuity and a willingness to throw elbows, Obama’s closest friend in the Cabinet has tried to reshape American schools. Now will the backlash erase his legacy? Education Secretary Arne Duncan is a mild-mannered, even-tempered, introverted...

Reader Comments: Sanders forces question - Are You a Capitalist; Media and Country Debate Socialism like no time in a hundred years; Clinton; GOP Crackup; Afghanistan; Puerto Rico; Palestine; Leonard Peltier; Readers Debate Tipping; Rosalyn Baxandall...

It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who had been swept into office on a promise to clean...

by Peter Dreier As we celebrate his birthday, it is easy to forget that Rev. Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist. In 1964, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, he observed that the United States could learn much from Scandinavian “democratic...