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Jan 30 2014
News
GOP offers to cooperate with Obama on limited agenda
Responding to President Obama's State of the Union challenge, House Republican leaders on Thursday offered the White House a list of areas where they believe they can cooperate this year on legislation focused chiefly on jobs and energy.
Washington TimesJan 29 2014
News
Obama vows in SOTU to use tools of executive power to narrow the gap between rich and poor
President Obama, seeking to restore confidence in his leadership, set a goal in his State of the Union address of using executive power to narrow the gap between rich and poor and speed the country's economic recovery.
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 20 2016
News
Robert Reich: Like a Tyrant, Trump Is Deploying Seven Techniques to Control the Media
Today marks the 146th day since Donald Trump last held a news conference. As the Electoral College backs Trump, we speak to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it," Reich recently wrote. "They use seven techniques that, worryingly, President-
Democracy Now!Jun 17 2012
News
Gay-marriage backers seek to turn tide in votes in 4 states
Gay marriage dominates the list of “social-issue ballot measures going to voters this year, with amendments for and against same-sex unions up in four “blue states:
Washington TimesMar 05 2019
News
Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity
SAN FRANCISCO — When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups, it found, to the surprise of just about everyone, that men were paid less money than women for doing similar work.
The study, which disproportionately led to pay raises for thousands of men, is done every year, but the latest findings arrived as
New York Times (News)Nov 19 2018
Opinion
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After what seem like years of a phony war, British and European Union negotiators finally agreed on the terms of Britain’s departure from the EU earlier this week, and Theresa May announced it in the House of Commons. The deal covers more than 500 pages of legal and bureaucratic prose, and few but the negotiators have read it in full. But those who have say that it confirms the earlier leaks:
Guest Writer - RightApr 08 2021
News
West Virginia Republicans seek to criminalize removal of Confederate statues
Nearly 158-years after its founding West Virginia – a state forged from the fires of America’s civil war – remains stuck between north and south. Now lawmakers are considering a bill that would protect Confederate monuments from removal or renaming. Supporters claim they are protecting everyone’s history. Opponents call the bill “traumatic and mentally exhausting”.
At a moment of
The GuardianJun 24 2016
News
Trump touts Britain break-off from EU, as vote roils American politics
Britain’s stunning vote to leave the European Union sent shockwaves across the American political landscape Friday, with Donald Trump cheering the decision to “take their country back” and linking the campaign to his own populist bid – as U.S. officials tried to offer assurances the U.S.-U.K. alliance will endure the global turmoil wrought by the vote.
Fox News DigitalJul 18 2020
Analysis
‘I’m… At A Loss For Words’: The Unraveling Narrative Behind The Atlantic’s Defund-The-Police ‘Shooting’ Tale
When social justice activist and lawyer Derecka Purnell was just 12 years old, she and her sister watched a police officer shoot a young boy in a city recreation center because he had ignored the basketball sign-in sheet. This jarring, emotional, and deeply unsettling story was published July 6 at The Atlantic, in the section reserved for ideas, under the bold, attention-grabbing headline, “
The FederalistFeb 25 2021
News
It's All About Trump: CPAC Seems Poised To Ignore Republican Identity Crisis
When the annual Conservative Political Action Conference — CPAC for short — kicks off Thursday in Orlando, Fla., it might as well be called TPAC.
That's because this year, it is all about Trump.
The former president will headline the event with a Sunday afternoon keynote address, his first speech since leaving office last month.
It comes as the Republican Party is
NPR (Online News)