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Aug 16 2021
Analysis
The rapid fall of Afghanistan to Taliban forces, explained
The collapse was the result of a demoralized military, Afghan officers say.
On Sunday morning, the Taliban successfully reached Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul, following an accelerated sweep across the country, with the militant group quickly taking hold of the final government-controlled holdouts within the last week.
The Islamist militant group’s successful capture of the
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Jan 08 2022
Opinion
Biden Can Take Bold Steps for Dreamers in 2022
For Dreamers, 2021 was the year that promised some permanent relief from their fragile immigration status—but failed to deliver. President Biden can ensure 2022 is different.
Candidate Joe Biden promised in his final debate with Donald Trump in October 2020 that if he was elected president, Dreamers, those brought to the U.S. without permission by their parents when they were children,
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Sep 17 2021
News
Is Joe Manchin holding democracy hostage? His colleagues won’t say.
Increasingly, the ideal of a republic that puts some guardrails on popular passions is being criticized by those who feel that a majority-wins system would be fairer. How much power should one lawmaker have?
Inside the air-conditioned halls of the august U.S. Capitol, reporters and lawmakers alike are jockeying for a word with Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the fiscally conservative
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Apr 23 2021
News
Republicans Look to Slash the Size of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
Working to avoid being cut out of the process, they presented a $568 billion blueprint that is a fraction of the size of President Biden’s proposal.
Senate Republicans on Thursday offered a $568 billion counterproposal to President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, laying out a marker they hoped would kick-start bipartisan negotiations to vastly scale back the president’s plan
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Mar 09 2020
Perspectives Blog
Social Transformation through Self Transformation: John Wood, Jr. at Visionaries Summit
Better Angels national leader John Wood, Jr. delivers a passionate address to The Visionaries Summit in Sacramento, California on the power of personal transformation to effect social change through Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principles of non-violence.
John Wood Jr. is a national leader for Better Angels, a former nominee for congress, former Vice-Chairman of the Republican
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Jul 06 2021
News
U.S. lobby groups write battle plan to beat Biden tax hikes
U.S. business lobbying groups cheered a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal, but are gearing up to fight the corporate tax hikes looming in a separate but linked spending bill that Democrats aim to pass without Republican votes.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Retail Federation and other deep-pocketed lobby groups plan to
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Nov 02 2021
Opinion
Biden heads into international climate negotiations with a weak hand
On the opening day of the 26th international climate conference in Glasgow, President Joe Biden’s pitch to the world was, more or less, to trust that the US would lead on the climate crisis. Biden originally hoped to arrive in Scotland with a pair of laws in hand that marked the US’s most significant investment ever in the climate crisis. Instead, he brought a smattering of executive actions
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Mar 25 2021
News
Here are nine questions Biden may face at his first presser
President Biden will hold his first formal press conference on Thursday, more than 60 days after taking office.
The presser comes as Biden faces a burgeoning crisis at the southern border, mass shootings that have reenergized a debate over gun control and internal battling among Democrats over whether to get rid of the filibuster and how much to even try to work with Republicans.
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Oct 18 2021
Opinion
How screwed are Democrats in the Senate?
Democrats are terrified of what the future holds for them in the United States Senate.
The party currently controls half the seats in the chamber, giving them, with Vice President Harris’s tie-breaking vote, the narrowest possible majority. But some in the party — like pollster David Shor, recently profiled by Ezra Klein in the New York Times — believe demographic trends put Democrats
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Jun 11 2021
News
Democrats wary of emerging bipartisan infrastructure deal
Progressive Democrats are wary of an emerging deal on infrastructure being negotiated by five Republican and five Democratic senators, fearing it could make it tougher to get prized priorities to President Biden’s desk.
The progressives are specifically worried that passing a bipartisan infrastructure package consisting of the most popular infrastructure spending priorities — such as
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