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Two: Blame Trump. He destroyed norms and mainstreamed vulgarity and violent rhetoric. And since he’s been the dominant ...

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley now holds the record for third longest Senate floor speech in modern history, after delivering ...

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.), a prominent Senate progressive, held the Senate floor overnight and into Wednesday ...

The Democratic Senator from Oregon is delivering an hours-long speech in the against President Trump. This blog is now closed ...

The resolution in question was introduced by the Senate Democratic leader after Republicans proposed a different one ...

It’s important to consider how political satire helps defend democracy in ways that go beyond speaking truth to power.

Editorial: Criticism of immigration policy is fair, but comments that liken ICE agents to Gestapo are at best rash and at ...

The speeches that we studied of the great orators, from Greek times to the present, read like a work of art. A Monet or a ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) The assassination in September 2025 of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has heightened attention on the relationship between political rhetoric and political violence. Even before ...