Latest Fox News Poll Reveals Grim Numbers for GOP on Economy

By Sarah Rumpf | April 24, 2026
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite The latest Fox News poll revealed grim numbers for Republicans on the economy — an issue that had long been a strength for them — in what is yet another alarm bell for the GOP as the midterm elections loom. The polling numbers for President Donald Trump and Republicans have been brutal as his second term…Read More

Speaker Johnson Unveils Another Bad FISA Deal

By [email protected] | April 23, 2026
Gottheimer, Suozzi, Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez Must Not Side with Johnson, Miller and Trump on Surveillance Washington, D.C. — On Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled yet another proposal to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This proposal lacks meaningful privacy reforms, like his last, failed plan, and also extends … Continued The post Speaker…Read More

The Fight Against Warehouse Detention Has Come to Congress

By Sophie Hurwitz | April 23, 2026
Laura Spivak, an organizer with Washington County Indivisible, has spent the past few months trying everything to stop the construction of an ICE detention warehouse only five miles from her home.  “We’ve protested, we’ve written and called, we’ve fought legal battles,” she said at a press conference Thursday in support of the Ban Warehouse Detention Act, a bill Rep.Rashida Tlaib…Read More

Song of the Day 4/23: Dave Mason, “Only You Know and I Know”

By Alby | April 23, 2026
Dave Mason, the British guitarist who cofounded the psychedelic band Traffic before embarking on a solo career, died Sunday at 79. Mason wrote some classic rock staples that were bigger hits for other singers. “Feelin’ Alright?” didn’t chart for Traffic, but it was a hit for Joe Cocker. “Only You Know and I Know” missed […] Source link delawareliberal.netRead More

Republicans Try To Overturn Election After Virginia Makes Trump's Gerrymander Backfire

By Jason Easley | April 22, 2026
The cynical Republican approach to election results is on full display in Virginia. After voters supported redrawing the state’s congressional map to counter Donald Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 midterm election, Republicans immediately went court shopping and found a conservative judge in the state who tossed out the election and refused to certify the results. Virginia AG Jay Jones…Read More

Injunction Against Publicly Identifying Pseudonymous Litigants Is Content-Based Prior Restraint,

By Eugene Volokh | April 22, 2026
Today’s decision by Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson, joined by Chief Judge Albert Diaz, in Doe v. Mast involved a gag order on defendants: The order barred the defendants from “disclosing any information that directly or indirectly identifies Plaintiffs or their family members to any person … unless that person first executes a non-disclosure agreement.” The court ultimately upheld the…Read More

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 22, 2026

By El Somnambulo | April 22, 2026
Oops, I missed something yesterday and, for the newbies, this will (very narrowly) expand your knowledge base.  The House ran a Consent Agenda on Tuesday.  A consent agenda consists of non-controversial and often inconsequential legislation.  Several bills, in other words, to be approved by a single roll call.  At the request of any legislator, an […] Source link delawareliberal.netRead More

Yakov Kronrod’s Plan for Economic Democracy in the USSR

By David Mandel | April 22, 2026
Yakov Kronrod was a leading figure of the Soviet economic school of so-called marketeers (tovarniki) and a major participant in the debates about economic reform in the 1960s, as Soviet planners discussed whether to accord a greater role to market relations within the framework of the planned, nationalized economy. Kronrod was born in 1912 and […] Source link jacobin.comRead More