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Apr 20 2021
News
In death, long after loss, Mondale’s liberal legacy stands
In the last days of his life, former Vice President Walter Mondale received a steady stream of phone calls of appreciation. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris all called to say goodbye and thank you.
It was a sign of respect for a man many Americans remember largely for his near-shutout defeat for the White House in 1984
Associated Press Fact CheckJan 01 2022
Opinion
We must not fall short on election reform in 2022
For those seeking better elections and a more representative government in the United States, the coming year is a time of great promise and peril. We have a historic opportunity to advance comprehensive electoral reform, yet have much to lose if we fall short.
I’ve led FairVote since it launched in 1992, grounded in a vision of lifting up structural reform nationally while advancing
The FulcrumFeb 10 2021
News
Impeachment Trial Begins
“The Senate voted on Tuesday to proceed with the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump… The vote came after an afternoon of arguments in which Democrats argued that the trial was on solid legal footing and that the Constitution didn’t include a ‘January exception’ that would allow presidents to go unpunished for improper actions in the final weeks of their tenure. Mr. Trump’s lawyers
The Flip SideMay 28 2021
Opinion
Biden's lack of interest in investigating the origins of COVID-19 is troubling
President Joe Biden is right to resume the Trump administration's investigation into the possibility the novel coronavirus escaped from a Chinese laboratory. It is a welcome shift from his earlier partisanship-addled refusal, but the process it took to reach this decision is not one that inspires confidence.
Biden said he has asked the intelligence community to “redouble their efforts
Washington ExaminerJul 24 2020
News
How the U.S. Compares With the World’s Worst Coronavirus Hot Spots
This chart shows the countries with the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world right now. With its cases surging since mid-June, the United States is squarely in the top 10.
Leading the outbreak now are countries in the Persian Gulf, where the virus has spread rapidly among foreign laborers.
New York Times (News)Sep 30 2021
News
Why Congress is bringing US to the brink of default
Like a bad date, Republicans are trying to “dine and dash,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said this week, accusing his GOP colleagues of ducking responsibility for covering America’s debt, trillions of which accrued during the Trump presidency.
Why should we help cover that bill, the GOP is responding in essence, when our dinner companion is right now preparing to order a 10-
Christian Science MonitorOct 24 2021
Analysis
Biden's Support Among Independents Has Crashed
We are living through the era of unpopular presidents.
Just nine months into his term, President Joe Biden has already achieved something only predecessor Donald Trump managed before him: an average approval rating south of 45 percent in the third quarter of his first year.
According to an Oct. 1-19 Gallup poll of 832 American adults released today, Biden was at 42 percent
ReasonJul 11 2021
Opinion
How the White Press Wrote Off Black America
Newspapers that championed white supremacy throughout the pre-civil rights South paved the way for lynching by declaring African Americans nonpersons. They embraced the language once used at slave auctions by denying Black citizens the courtesy titles Mr. and Mrs. and referring to them in news stories as “the negro,” “the negress” or “the nigger.”
They depicted Black men as congenital
New York Times (Opinion)Sep 22 2020
Analysis
1619 Project Author Nikole Hannah-Jones Now Says She Never Implied That Year Was America's True Founding
The 1619 Project is The New York Times' Pulitzer-winning effort to put racism and slavery at the center of the conversation about American history. The newspaper published a series of articles in August 2019—the 400th anniversary of slavery's introduction to the English colonies in the Americas—that reframed the year 1619 rather than 1776 as the true founding of America.
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ReasonNov 13 2021
Opinion
Kyle Rittenhouse Doesn’t Need to Be Acquitted to Win
Kyle Rittenhouse was 17 when he killed two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and wounded another. Rittenhouse, who is now 18, has been charged as an adult with five felonies and is accused of crossing state lines and using a gun to kill Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, and injure Gaige Grosskreutz. Earlier this month, amid a swarm of controversy, he went on trial in a
Mother Jones