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October 22, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Blue States Give Trump a Taste of His Own Shutdown Medicine
Donald Trump has repeatedly tried to blame the shutdown on Democrats. The tables are getting turned.
December 5, 2024
Nick Tabor
Here’s What States Should Do to Fight Climate Change Under Trump
It’s not inevitable that we’ll stall or go backward on climate progress in the next four years. States can do far more to accelerate the energy transition than most people appreciate.
May 23, 2024
Grace Segers
The Hot New Down-Ballot Races: State Supreme Court Seats
With the end of nationwide abortion rights, money and attention is pouring into state-level high court races.
February 21, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Respond to World-Historical Drought by Propping Up Fossil Fuels
Climate change is ravaging the American West. Lawmakers in those states, meanwhile, want to punish any bank that pulls money from the fossil fuel companies contributing to that climate change.
May 14, 2020
Magazine
Win McCormack
Mutant Liberalism
A threat to the community
January 29, 2014
Kevin Mahnken
Red States' Legally Dubious Strategy to Destroy Obamacare
Nullification by any other name...
January 13, 2014
Jennifer Kirby
How Does Your State Rank on the Minimum Wage?
January 9, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Rubio Talks Poverty, Says Things That Are Not Totally Crazy
December 12, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
A Conservative Congressman Gets Flak About the Keystone Pipeline—From the Right
June 5, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Poison Pen
Iowa's budget gives the governor extraordinary power over abortion reimbursements
May 1, 2013
Matt Katz
Takeover Fever
Across America, states are taking over cities and school boards. Does it make a difference?
February 28, 2013
Molly Redden
The Battle for the GOP's Soul Is Being Waged in Virginia
If Bob McDonnell isn't a conservative, then what hope do Republicans have of rebounding?
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