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April 2, 2018
Sarah Jones
Kentucky Teachers Walk Out
They become the latest educators to stage a statewide protest, in response to an attack on public education from Republican Governor Matt Bevin.
June 27, 2017
Brian Beutler
Steve Beshear lays into Mitch McConnell over “unconscionable” health bill: “He’s going to cost people their lives.”
April 11, 2017
Graham Vyse
Kentucky newspaper defends story on United Airlines victim’s “troubled past,” blames outrage on “the social media mob mentality.”
February 17, 2016
Rebecca Leber
The biggest revelation about Kentucky sending its top climate official packing is that it had a climate change official in the first place.
November 4, 2015
Brian Beutler
The Superficiality of the Republican Commitment to Racial Justice
Look no further than the governor's race in Kentucky
September 9, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Mitch McConnell Is Powerless to Block Obama’s Climate Change Deal
September 8, 2015
Samuel Bagenstos
Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Never Should Have Gone to Jail
September 2, 2015
Brian Beutler
Throw Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis in Jail
She must be punished severely for denying marriage licenses to gay couples
August 4, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Attacking Obama's Climate Plan Won't Save America's Dying Coal Industry
November 6, 2014
Brian Beutler
The GOP's Biggest Midterm Loser: Rand Paul
October 30, 2014
Brian Beutler
It Won't Be Obama's Fault When the Democrats Lose the Senate
October 24, 2014
Danny Vinik
An Empty Cocktail for Mitch McConnell
October 12, 2014
Jason Zengerle
Alison Lundergan Grimes Is Running the Worst Senate Campaign of the Year
September 17, 2014
Alec MacGillis
The Strategy That Might Have Beaten Mitch McConnell
Alison Grimes is trailing in the polls—but she might not be if she had used Obamacare to her advantage
August 19, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Now Even Republicans Are Being Accused of Waging a War on Coal
August 5, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
GRAPH: Obamacare's Impact on the Uninsured, State by State
Where officials wanted it to work, it did
August 4, 2014
Brian Beutler
Did Mitch McConnell Hit Rand Paul With the Nerdiest Attack in Political History?
July 15, 2014
Brian Beutler
Will Voters Make Mitch McConnell Pay for His About-Face on Medicare?
July 9, 2014
Rebecca Leber
This Is the Most Absurd Climate-Change Denial Yet
A Kentucky lawmaker claims Mars disproves global warming on Earth
June 3, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Ignore the Pundits: "Coal Country" Doesn't Decide Elections Like It Used To

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