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Biden can't stop asking reporters to 'give him a break' when the corporate media repeatedly hand him break after break on silver platters.Joe Biden’s favorite ice cream flavor. Kamala Harris’ oh-so-cool Timberland boots. The Biden family dogs. Playing Mario Kart at Camp David with the Biden grandkids. The president’s early bedtime and fires in the Oval Office fireplace. These are just a handful of the softball topics the corporate media have fawned over since even before Biden took office, a drastic reversal of tone to their antagonistic coverage of the Trump administration.But the corporate media fan club isn’t enough to...

President Donald Trump is leaving office with a higher approval rating and the Republican Party on better footing than after President George W. Bush exited the office in 2009, when the younger Bush saw historically low ratings.According to RealClearPolitics’ aggregate of polls, Trump is moving out of the White House with a nearly 40 percent approval rating overall. Bush enjoyed just under 30 percent of Americans on his side at this same point in his presidency.One recent poll by the Pew Research Center made headlines this month. It was conducted in the aftermath of the attacks on Capitol Hill and...

A key victory for the UAW is on the line. Friday is the last day of a union-organizing vote at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. At stake is whether the German automaker's sole plant in the U.S. will be represented by the United Auto Workers. But it's also much more than that: The battle being waged in Chattanooga is being billed as a seminal moment that will either pave the way for more labor unions in the South, or affirm the continuation of a "right to work" region that is UAW-free. Going into the three-day election, the vote was...

For all its downsides, the budget stalemate has helped shed light on a pressing question -- which parts of the government can Americans live without? The partial government shutdown effectively has forced every agency in Washington to answer that question. Ahead of the budget deadline, agency heads were ordered to figure out how many employees would be deemed "essential" in case of a partial shutdown. The results (which can be viewed here) give a glimpse into how important, or not, dozens of federal agencies and departments are to Americans' everyday lives.