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Jun 19 2020
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‘My biggest risk’: Trump says mail-in voting could cost him reelection
With his poll numbers slumping, the president warns Republicans in a POLITICO interview not to abandon him.
President Donald Trump called mail-in voting the biggest threat to his reelection and said his campaign's multimillion-dollar legal effort to block expanded ballot access could determine whether he wins a second term.
In an Oval Office interview Thursday focusing on the
PoliticoJan 21 2020
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Five major reflections 10 years after Citizens United
Ten years ago exactly — on Jan. 21, 2010 — the Supreme Court gave the green light to unlimited political expenditures by corporations, labor unions and nonprofit groups. The decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which said curbs on such spending violated the First Amendment, fundamentally changed the way elections are financed today.
A decade later the majority opinion in Citizens United
The FulcrumJun 04 2012
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Some Lawmakers Look for Way Out as Defense Cuts Near
Senator Lindsey Graham rode last week like Paul Revere from South Carolinas wooded upstate to its gracious Lowcountry to its sweltering midsection, offering a bureaucratic rallying cry for his military-heavy state  the defense cuts are coming.
New York Times (News)Oct 14 2013
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Senate Dems Go Old Testament: An eye for an eye
Senate Democrats are hunting for six Republicans votes to help Majority Leader Harry Reid jam the GOP-controlled House. With debt-limit doom just three days away, Senate Democrats are still finding time to pay back the House for making the focus of the current fiscal fights all about ObamaCare. Rather than rush to a deal, the evident effort in the Senate is to make House Republicans gag on an
Fox News DigitalJan 20 2020
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Women denied abortions live in financial distress years later, study finds
The financial cards are stacked against women who want but are denied an abortion, as they and their children are more likely to spend years living in poverty than those able to end their pregnancies, a new study suggests. Those compelled to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term are far more likely to experience eviction, bankruptcy and be mired in debt, according to the findings released Monday
CBS News (Online)Jan 20 2020
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ANALYSIS: Bloomberg engaged in corporate takeover of the Democratic Party
Mike Bloomberg is using his vast personal fortune to commandeer the Democratic Party, discarding tradition and ignoring the party establishment in an unorthodox bid to capture the presidential nomination.
The former New York City mayor is moving to leapfrog entrenched Democrats with carefully laid plans that follow time-honored rules for seeking the presidential nomination. Bloomberg’s
Washington ExaminerMar 10 2019
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White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow foresees another budget fight over border wall
Larry Kudlow, a top White House economic adviser, said President Trump’s “tough” 2020 budget blueprint, due out Monday, could trigger a new fight over the his desired U.S.-Mexico border wall. The 2020 budget blueprint will include at least $8.6 billion in border wall money, a senior administration official said Sunday. About $5 billion is slated to come from the Department of Homeland Security
Washington TimesDec 02 2019
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Trump Has Built a Wall of Bureaucracy to Keep Out the Very Immigrants He Says He Wants
Samir came to the United States from India in 2006 as a graduate student. He got a master’s degree in environmental engineering, and after a few internships where he picked up programming skills, he was hired in 2010 by UnitedHealthcare, a Fortune 500 insurance company based in Minnesota. He loved his job streamlining its claims process. “There were days where I worked three days nonstop, no
Mother JonesDec 01 2014
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Obama to Host Meetings on Ferguson Protests on Monday
President Barack Obama will spend Monday grappling with the fallout of a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
Mr. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are scheduled to attend three meetings at the White House on Monday related to the August shooting in Ferguson, Mo., the violent protests in the St. Louis
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 18 2020
Analysis
Yes, the UK media’s coverage of Meghan Markle really is racist
Not agreeing with the concept of a hereditary monarchy in a country where it’s celebrated is an odd place to be. Stranger still is spending your time defending particular members of the royal family after coverage of them turns hostile. But this is where I’ve found myself this past week.
Part of my job as an academic is to examine how racism functions in the UK. Ever since Meghan Markle
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