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Nov 03 2022
Perspectives Blog
Paul Pelosi Attack Condemned by Both Sides as Theories Persist
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Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was hospitalized after being attacked at his San Francisco home Friday. An intruder, who was reportedly looking for Nancy, broke into the home and confronted Pelosi in his
AllSides StaffJun 15 2021
Headline Roundup
Senate Passes Bill to Make Juneteenth A National Holiday
On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously approved a bill that would make June 19, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday. Though President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation years prior in 1862, June 19, 1865 marks the anniversary of when the final enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom. The recognition of Juneteenth as a national holiday comes amid a larger national
National Review (News) Politico NPR (Online News)Jun 22 2022
Analysis
A Year Of Embarrassing Scandal May Help Hawaii Finally Reform Campaign Finance
In the opening months of this election year, Hawaii voters witnessed the outrageous spectacle of two influential state lawmakers pleading guilty in a corruption scandal that seemed to confirm everyone’s worst suspicions about “pay to play” in local politics.
The convictions of former Senate Democratic Majority Leader J. Kalani English and Rep. Ty Cullen centered on their relationship
Honolulu Civil BeatDec 20 2019
Opinion
In the debate, Buttigieg’s loss is Klobuchar’s gain
I’m Megan McArdle, and this is Round 45 — the number of presidents we’ve had! And at least the number of Democrats who’ve been in this race at one point or another, surely!
Washington PostApr 23 2021
News
Manchin: I would endorse Murkowski 'in a heartbeat'
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia didn’t flinch when asked whether he would cross party lines to back his Republican colleague and friend in Alaska’s Senate race.
Manchin revealed in a joint interview with Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski that he would endorse her for reelection in 2022 “in a heartbeat.” Murkowski, one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict former President
Washington ExaminerApr 23 2021
Analysis
What is controversial about Joe Biden saying “Armenian genocide”?
REPRESENTATIVES OF AMERICA’S government have not always minced their words about the fate that befell Armenians in 1915. At the time, Henry Morgenthau Sr, the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, called it “a campaign of race extermination”. Joe Biden is set to describe the killing and mass deportation of Armenians as “genocide”. That is not unprecedented—the last sitting president to
The EconomistFeb 06 2019
News
Trump’s 2019 State of the Union was an ode to an imaginary America
A kind of faux populism that’s really about race.
VoxSep 11 2020
News
NFL Season Begins With Protests at Texans-Chiefs Game
Before the Kansas City Chiefs began their Super Bowl defense Thursday night against the Houston Texans in the first game of the 2020 NFL season, there was a question for both teams: How would they protest against racism in America?
The answer was complicated. The Texans left the field entirely before both the national anthem and the playing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 30 2020
News
America’s Center Needs to Make Itself Heard
The intensity surrounding the coming election, the nastiness of the debates and general rhetoric, and the unending protests and rallies and even regattas in support of President Trump paint a picture of a very polarized nation. Our divisions are real—and concerning—but some context is needed.
What we see in the electoral and social zeitgeist of the day is not representative of all of
The DispatchJul 10 2021
News
Randi Weingarten Rips CRT Critics for ‘Trying to Stop Us From Teaching Students Accurate History’
The Republican Party’s cynical assault on Critical Race Theory is a political strategy that relies on controlling the message going into the 2022 midterm elections. So partisan apparatchiks, along with the talking heads that populate the GOP’s media echo chamber, have adopted a rigid approach to any dissent from the party line regarding what it hopes will be the new orthodoxy on teaching—or,
The Nation