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Turns out that bipartisanship isn’t dead after all. There is still an issue that many Democrats and Republicans can agree on: corruption. Not fighting it, mind you, but rather turning a blind eye to it.

Granted, it would be impossible to entirely eliminate corruption in Washington, DC. The federal government now doles out more than $4 trillion annually, and anybody who can afford a lobbyist, i.e., rich people, large corporations, and foreign countries, wants a piece of that pie.

Always Advance, Never Retweet: Amid the chaos, consternation, and possible securities law violations following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter stock and announcement that he wants to take the company private, there’s hope. 

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You can learn more about Maksym Zubkov’s project, Support Ukraine With Us, by visiting his website; you can also support the project at this donation page. 

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As countries seize assets tied to sanctioned Russian business and political leaders, owners of superyachts linked to Vladmir Putin and his associates via a web of shell companies are asking a key question: Whose yacht is it, anyway? 

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Without help from major labor unions or members of the national Democratic Party — like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), who they say abandoned them— Amazon workers in Staten Island fought to form a union on their own. Against overwhelming odds, they won the right to organize.

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Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies, with real life dialogue, were a staple of the Village Voice in its heyday. Now he’s back with his unique take on the 21st century.

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The House committee investigating the January 6 riots is probing a nearly eight-hour gap in former President Donald Trump’s call logs from that day.

Great news: We won a Pullitzer Prize in the “Combined Cartoons and Editorials” category. It was our third.

This is a lie, of course, and a clumsy one at that. It’s spelled “Pulitzer,” there is no “Combined Cartoons and Editorials” category, and the winners are announced in May. In addition, it would be easy to check past Pulitzer Prize recipients.

At the same time that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) was telling the press that Social Security and Medicare should be curtailed for future generations, Congress was sending billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine.

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Generally, it’s nearly impossible to predict when history will be made, and it’s even more difficult to get a front row seat when it does happen. 

For example, the people who went to Gettysburg, PA, in November 1863, to listen to their president speak could not have known that Abraham Lincoln’s words would endure the test of time. 

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The GOP sets a different pace when it comes to Supreme Court nominations. 

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Charles Koch’s organizations announced they will keep their companies open in Russia and stated that they are against sanctions.

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A leaked March 3 memo revealed this week that the Kremlin instructed Russian media outlets to “use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson.” Carlson is the only Western “journalist” mentioned by name. 

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It’s been less than three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and things couldn’t be going better… well, unless you are one of the 44 million Ukrainians whose country is getting shelled. But let’s forget them for a moment (as the world will in a few weeks).

On the face of it, Russia’s performance justifies the giddiness of military experts (both real and on Twitter).

After banning imports of Russian oil following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the US is looking for friendlier sources of energy as fuel prices rise. 

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When the news gets bad, the bad kill the news. 

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is playing out on social media. So far Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks like a hero and Vladimir Putin comes off as a raging zero. 

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Only 34 percent of American voters can find Ukraine on a map according to a recent survey, yet they have assumed very strong opinions. As Mark Twain wrote, “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” 

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After Donald Trump characterized Vladimir Putin’s plans for invading Ukraine as “genius” and “very savvy,” the GOP wants to play it both ways.   

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Americans consider Russian president Vladimir Putin to be the ultimate sinister Machiavellian monster, trained by the KGB. Joe Biden, on the other hand, seems like a simple-minded uncle. But what if it’s all a ploy?

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The Olympic Games are over, which means that some Americans may be feeling a bit of a void. After all, for the past two weeks they were able to experience the thrill of non-stop competition every time they turned on their televisions.

This might be especially true for Republicans because the Winter Olympics are such a natural fit for them: Everything is so white, and Scandinavians are the superior athletes.

It may be hard for many Democrats to fathom, but some voters seem a lot less scared of Donald Trump than they should be.

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Turns out Donald Trump had his own version of Richard Nixon’s White House “plumbers.” But in Trump’s world, staffers literally unclogged White House toilets he reportedly stuffed with important documents. And what he couldn’t flush, he took with him to Mar-a-Lago.

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While Trumpism is essentially a cult, it is also a lot like an abusive relationship for the people in former President Donald Trump’s orbit: Stepping out of line invites further abuse, you have to cover for the abuser, and it involves a lot of lying to yourself that things aren’t so bad.

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In ancient Greece, a truce was declared before and during the Olympic Games to ensure that athletes and spectators could travel safely to and from the competition, and that the host city would not be attacked during the event.

It’s one of the earliest recorded examples of sports being a force for good and for bringing people together.

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– OPINION –

Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. He is an enemy of democracy — not just in Russia but also abroad. He despises a free press and has journalists killed. He has used his position of power to enrich himself and, under his authoritarian rule, Russia has been a destabilizing force in the world. Finally, he seems to be pursuing a vision of reassembling the pieces of the former Soviet Union and restoring it to its place among global superpowers.

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Usually, when Americans remember a date (other than holidays like Christmas or Halloween), it’s because it will live in infamy. That is why even the least historically literate of us know about December 7, September 11, and now January 6. In each case, the United States was attacked. 

It’s fair to say that the threat from Japan was effectively dealt with after a few years, tens of thousands of US casualties, an outlay of a few trillion dollars (adjusted for inflation), and two nuclear bombs dropped.

Many of the nation’s top universities have been placed on the dishonor roll. Accused of colluding on financial aid limits are: Brown, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern, Notre Dame, the University of Pennsylvania, Rice, Vanderbilt, and Yale

Invoking a five strikes policy, Twitter permanently suspended the Georgia congresswoman’s personal account for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. Facebook blocked her for a day.

It’s been almost a year since supporters of Donald Trump held their HangMikePence-athon outside (and then inside) of the Capitol, or, as Republicans (including Pence) would rather like it to be known, the Coup de Blah of 2021.

To call cartoonist Stan Mack unique is an understatement. Kind of like calling Donald Trump a lying, egomaniacal, racist, right-wing, authoritarian clown. It doesn’t quite do him justice. Mack teaches us to see not just with our eyes but our ears. His Real Life Funnies, with real life dialogue, were a staple of the Village Voice in its heyday. This year he brought his compassionate take on the world around him to WhoWhatWhy. Here are some of our favorites:

Our DonkeyHotey doesn’t tilt at windmills. No siree. The targets of his acid-dipped digital pen aren’t imaginary or unimportant. Au contraire. They’re all too real. Each week, whether accompanying a sharp-edged op-ed or standing on their own, DonkeyHotey’s cartoons take dead aim at the evildoers who keep us up at night. Here are some of the best of 2021.

Political cartoonist Jon Richards has an old school style but a new school sensibility. Whether he’s skewering Republicans or Democrats, he always has a sharp eye for the political hypocrisy of the moment. Here are a few of our favorite Richards cartoons of 2021.

With the political rifts of the past having grown into chasms, and one party more or less openly supporting a coup, there is increasing speculation that a second US civil war may break out. That’s complete nonsense, of course… because Civil War II is already underway. 

Ted Rall pulls no punches. He’s a patented political pugilist, landing haymaker after haymaker, week after week. Rall’s cartoons may not float like a butterfly, but they certainly sting like a bee. Here are some of our favorites from 2021.

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-Jurassic Park) is a real live DINO — Democrat In Name Only. He doesn’t like child tax credits, or paid family leave, or green electricity, or…

It’s easier to get an abortion in Ireland than it is in many states in the US.

Let that sink in. In an overhwhelmingly Catholic country, the citizens made their opinion known, and the government legalized abortion in 2018. And yet Texas has installed a vigilante justice system to rat out anyone who helps a woman get an abortion, and the Supreme Court thinks that’s just fine. How did we get to this?

In the Christmas spirit of gun- and ammo-loving Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Thomas Massie (R-KY), we bring you a MAGA manger.

A year after former (and quite possibly future) President Donald Trump’s attempted coup, Republicans across the country remain busy systematically dismantling US democracy.

Led by Democratic leaders and their “aw-shucks” approach to this crisis, most Americans don’t seem to grasp the urgency of the situation. 

Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies, with real life dialogue, were a staple of the Village Voice in its heyday. Now he’s back with his unique take on the 21st century

While we routinely criticize and ridicule the rich and powerful, and even though the rich and powerful don’t like to be criticized and ridiculed, we don’t often have to apologize in this space. Sure, there was that one time when we wrote a 1,200-word column on how Fox News is systematically destroying America for profit, and they sent us an email about it.

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China has long wanted to take over Taiwan, aka the Republic of China, to incorporate it into the mainland. Russia would like to take over parts of eastern Ukraine to gain land access to Crimea and weaken the West’s influence in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the US is struggling to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control and keep the economy on track for recovery. 

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With Republican efforts in full swing to make the next election as undemocratic as possible (in order to make the next Congress as un-Democratic as possible), and public sentiment tilting toward them,

Steve Bannon surrendered to face contempt charges but vowed to make the case “the misdemeanor from hell,” echoing his prediction the day before the January 6 riot. “All hell is going to break loose,” he promised at the time.

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Mitch McConnell’s playing a high-stakes game of political chicken, risking a federal government shutdown and debt default that could trigger a world economic crisis, all to disrupt Democratic budget plans and score political points going into next year’s congressional elections.

Imagine a sausage factory that produces no sausage while running a huge deficit. But neither its management nor its employees care because their jobs come with a lot of perks and virtually none of them ever gets fired for doing nothing. Sound laughable? Well, if you are an American, then the joke is on you — because that sausage factory is Congress.

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As if a global pandemic, a global climate crisis, and poisonously partisan politics weren’t bad enough, Americans unconsciously find themselves driven to deal with another problem: The myths that we have traditionally relied on to define who we are and where we are going are beginning to unravel. 

At least five conservative, anti-vaccination radio hosts have died of COVID-19 since July. *The most recent was Bob Enyart, who in the ‘90s enjoyed reading aloud the names of those who died of AIDS while playing the Queen song “Another One Bites the Dust.”

There are many ways in which 9/11 was a tragedy. Only some of them will be told in all of the events surrounding the 20th anniversary of the attack — like the tales of heroism Americans enjoy hearing. Others will largely be glossed over — for example how the United States played right into the hands of al-Qaeda with a predictable response that cost many more lives than the attack itself, and created many new terrorists. 

One, however, will likely be ignored altogether: It is the tragedy of an opportunity squandered. 

“Radical Islamic terrorism.” Donald Trump relished using the controversial term, wielding it like a branding iron. He said those who couldn’t say its name were unfit to lead the country. But he chose not to say the name of something that has grown into what is now considered a bigger, scarier domestic threat: white supremacist terrorism.

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Texas politicians oppose abortion rights, voting rights, COVID-19 vaccination requirements, and

Don’t expect to hear a mea culpa anytime soon from the pro-choice senior senator from Maine, who voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch while insisting they would protect abortion rights.