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Trump's coalition is more fragile than it looks, but Democrats can't afford to get complacent.

The president's coalition is more fragile than it looks, but Democrats can't afford to get complacent.

The president and the gun lobby combine to put fear and dehumanization in our hearts, creating a fertile environment for continued outbreaks of mass violence.

The treasury secretary says the world's two biggest economies are making progress in talks aimed at reducing America's massive trade deficit with China.

Exploding magma from the Big Island's Kilauea volcano cuts off a highway and reaches the ocean. Flying lava hits a man, shattering his leg.

Significant parts of an American language long familiar to us quite literally, and in a remarkably coherent way, are going down the equivalent of George Orwell’s infamous Memory Hole.

If President Trump strikes some sort of deal with nuclear North Korea, and then unleashes the U.S. and Israeli militaries on non-nuclear Iran, the results would be catastrophic.

If President Trump strikes some sort of deal with already nuclear North Korea, and then unleashes the U.S. and Israeli military on non-nuclear Iran, the results would be catastrophic.

That identification of Englishness with whiteness in the American racial imaginary is nowhere more evident than racialist imaginings of the British royal family.

That identification of Englishness with whiteness in the American racial imaginary is nowhere more evident than racialist imaginings of the British royal family.

Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer welcomes Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA's School of Law, to discuss Citizens United.

Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer welcomes Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA's School of Law, to discuss Citizens United.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Robert Scoble /Flickr Creative Commons

This movement has nothing to do with left or right, Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal. It's all about right and wrong.

If President Washington was such a unifying force, why were the early 1790s so violent and contested?