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Liberal groups supporting IRS push to build government-run tax filing system

Left-wing groups and Democrats in Congress are backing a plan by the IRS to build a government-run tax filing program that critics argue would give the agency too much power.

GOP allies argue Trump can’t get fair trial from Obama appointee in DC

Republican allies of Donald Trump are stepping up their attacks on Washington, D.C., District Judge Tanya Chutkan and the D.C. court itself, arguing it would be impossible for the former president to get a fair trial in the nation’s capital city. Judge Chutkan’s ruling against Trump two years ago in a legal dispute over handing...

Why falling confidence in America’s military is creating ‘a real crisis’ 

The public’s confidence in the U.S. military is the lowest it's been in decades, and it’s doing no favors to the armed forces’ current recruitment struggles. Thanks to a combination of culture war issues, fresh reports of sexual assaults and suicides within the ranks, and a disastrous end to the Afghanistan War two years ago, Americans’ perception...

Biden, Trump tied in Michigan ahead of 2024 election: poll

President Biden and former President Trump are tied in the battleground state of Michigan, according to a new Emerson College poll released on Friday. Biden and Trump each garnered 44 percent support from Michigan voters, while eight percent said they would vote for someone else and five percent said they are undecided. However, the poll...

More Americans say they can never retire

A growing share of working Americans don’t think they will ever retire, recent surveys suggest. Retirement is a time-honored life stage and a near-universal expectation in working America. Yet, a comfortable retirement requires savings, and many workers fear they don’t have enough. In a July poll conducted jointly by Axios and Ipsos, 29 percent of...

Biden admin quietly revises gas stove analysis, reduces projected benefits

The Department of Energy filed a notice this week updating how much it projects consumers will save under proposed gas stove regulations it proposed earlier this year.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

A playlist is no match for a mixtape as a romantic gesture

When I was a teenager — and it’s none of your business when, exactly, that was — there was one unmistakable way to let someone know that you liked them. And when I say “liked” I mean liked liked. (That’s how we put it. We would say: “Do you like her? I mean, do you like her like her?” Or: “I, like, really like him. Like, like him like him.”) The way you communicated this, especially if you were a boy, was to make the object of your affection a mixtape.

Think you know your Gibsons from your Sidecars? The Downtime Cocktail Quiz

1) Which of these is the odd man out?

The O.C. premiered 20 years ago. Was it the beginning of an era of TV or the end of one?

And The O.C. was, despite its auteurist trappings, above all else, great TV qua TV.

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