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Unlike with so much of Donald Trump's obscene behavior, the American public isn’t standing for his attacks on Pope Leo.

The word “gerrymander” was coined in America more than 200 years ago as an unflattering way to describe the political manipulation of boundaries for legislative voting districts by those in charge of drawing them.

By Taylor Sisk for KFF A half-dozen cars had been in the queue for nearly four hours by the time the House of Hope mobile food pantry line began to move. Seventy or so more idled behind them by 11:30 a.m., when the food distribution began. The plan was to begin handing out boxes of groceries […]

Republicans were in full-on meltdown mode this week after they lost a redistricting ballot measure in Virginia that will axe as many as four GOP lawmakers from their congressional delegation.

The U.S. House of Representatives unexpectedly canceled a vote on a bill that would defang the Endangered Species Act.

Though I’ve highlighted the careers of each of these three musical greats here in the past, it’s fitting to finish up this year’s jazz appreciation month with this trio of Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke Ellington.