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The student-loan industry was created to give everyone an equal shot at the American Dream. The opposite happened.
LBJ had a vision for America: equal access to higher education. So he expanded student loans, and n…
Ayelet Sheffey
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams compares himself to FDR during the Great Depression
"FDR, like ELA, understood that people needed an honest reckoning of the problems and bold plans to…
Jake Lahut
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Blame student loans on Sputnik: How the 1957 launch of a Soviet rocket inspired the government to overhaul education
The USSR leapfrogged the USA in the space race with Sputnik, and the student-loan industry was mean…
Ayelet Sheffey
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LBJ demanded that his White House shower be fitted with some strange nozzles
The Kennedys never complained about the shower, so the engineers were at a loss. A team was sent to…
Amanda Macias
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Democrats know they have a Biden problem but they're standing by him
A former top Biden staffer laughed off the suggestion that flubbing a foreign leader's name would m…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed Biden for wanting to complete the work of Lyndon Johnson and FDR. Now he's using her speech in an official ad.
She compared Biden's agenda to that of former President Lyndon B. Johnson and President Franklin De…
Madison Hall
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The chaotic history of how we elect presidential candidates
Because of how we pick presidential candidates using a primary system, Democrats are likely stuck w…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Democrats are downplaying Biden's history-making 80th birthday, and insist that voters only care about what he 'is going to do to make their lives better'
Biden's birthday comes amid intense scrutiny of his age, especially as he weighs whether to run for…
Nicole Gaudiano,Warren Rojas
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Biden to award 17 Presidential Medals of Freedom, including to Steve Jobs, John McCain, Simone Biles, Gabriel Giffords, and Denzel Washington
The president will award the nation's highest civilian honor to a mix of business luminaries, celeb…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Poll: Americans really don't want a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024
A new AP-NORC poll finds more than 70% of Americans want neither Trump or Biden on the ballot in 20…
Brent D. Griffiths
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GOP Rep. Peter Meijer says 'there's no other option right now in the Republican Party' beyond backing Trump
Meijer said on Sunday former President Donald Trump remains relevant in the Republican party becaus…
Katie Balevic
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Literary legends Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb are set to be in a documentary that highlights their race to complete their final book
"Turn Every Page" director Lizzie Gottlieb spoke to Insider exclusively about making a documentary …
Jason Guerrasio
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TikTok users are stealing the heads off of 'Space Jam' Lebron James figures
TikTok users are posting videos of themselves stealing the heads of Lebron James toys, forcing some…
Steven Asarch
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The battle over abortion access could return to the ballot box in four states as the 2024 elections loom
Several states allow their citizens to amend its constitution via ballot initiative. These four sta…
Brent D. Griffiths,Madison Ha…
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We could soon be facing the biggest financial crisis in history as Republicans threaten to stop paying America's bills
Republicans are using the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip, and their actions could torpedo the ec…
Ayelet Sheffey,Juliana Kaplan
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More than 200 incarcerated people and staff at Texas prisons and jails have died from coronavirus, report shows
11 of the 14 incarcerated individuals in jails who died from coronavirus were not convicted of a cr…
Inyoung Choi
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US Secret Service protection would follow Donald Trump to the slammer if he ever ended up there, former agents say
Former Secret Service officials are wondering exactly how agents would protect ex-President Donald …
Robin Bravender,Dave Levinthal
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A brief rundown of Trump's horrible, no-good, very bad week
President Trump's "worst week" has been declared many times over by pundits, but this stretch of Ju…
Jake Lahut
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The only way you're going to survive this awful, terrible winter is reading a gigantic epic science fiction or fantasy series
Living through this winter is going to be hard. You'll be much happier if you start reading a gigan…
Walt Hickey
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10 Things in Politics: McCarthy tries to torpedo Capitol riot commission
And the Trump Organization is subject to a criminal investigation by the New York attorney general'…