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May 25 2020
Analysis
Do Joe Biden’s “you ain’t black” comments ultimately matter?
Former Vice President Joe Biden is no stranger to the political gaffe. And on Friday, he stepped in it once again.
After putting it off for months, Biden finally sat down for an interview on “The Breakfast Club,” a radio show that’s earned a place in the black cultural canon for its buzzy, confrontational interviews of entertainers and political leaders. While the 18-minute interview
Vox
Jan 22 2020
News
NYT Endorsements
On Sunday, the New York Times editorial board endorsed both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination. New York Times
Both sides are critical of the decision not to pick a single candidate:
“Maybe someone should explain to the editors that endorsing multiple candidates for the same race isn’t actually an endorsement at all… Most ironically, the
The Flip Side
Nov 17 2016
News
Embrace Transition Tension
Most of Washington has its attention focused on the Trump transition. Everyone from Capitol Hill to K Street is trying to figure out who's in, who's out, who's on the short list for what, and what it all means for them. It's a very expensive parlor game without a lot of clues to help those playing it decipher what's going on.
Peter Roff
Nov 17 2016
News
Hillary Clinton: FIght...America is Worth It
With many on the right still urging Trump to deliver on his campaign promise of naming a special prosecutor with the full time task of pursuing Hillary Clinton, you might expect the former candidate to shy from the limelight. That’s not the case. Instead, Hillary appeared in Washington on Wednesday at an event to celebrate the Children’s Defense Fund, and delivered an emotional address.
Daily Kos
Mar 27 2018
News
Everything about the omnibus spending bill shows how badly Congress and our government is broken
Working backward from popular vote loser Donald Trump's untethered statement about signing the omnibus spending bill—including his demand for an unconstitutional line-item veto—everything about this spending bill has been a total mess. That includes the five continuing resolutions—and one government shutdown—in six months that led up to it. It's the latest evidence of how profoundly government
Daily Kos
May 13 2019
News
China Announces Tariff Retaliation to Take Effect on June 1
China announced that it will impose additional tariffs on some American goods in retaliation for the latest increase of U.S. duties on $200 billion of Chinese imports.
The tariffs will take effect on June 1, according to a statement on the Ministry of Finance’s website on Monday. The tariffs will be imposed on some of the goods listed on a previous retaliation list from 2018.
The
Bloomberg
Jun 23 2020
Opinion
The Triumph of the Country Mouse
Cities lose their charms when they’re engulfed in chaos, crime, and mobs — and run by virtue-signaling appeasers.
In Aesop’s Fables and Horace’s Satires a common classical allegory is variously retold about the country mouse and his sophisticated urban cousin.
The city-slicker mouse first visits his rustic cousin’s simple rural hole and is quickly bored and unimpressed by both
Victor Hanson
May 18 2018
Opinion
OPINION: It’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s World Now
Nearly every day it seems that another dream comes true for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: On May 8, when President Trump announced that the United States was pulling out of the nuclear deal with Iran, he delivered a speech that could have been written by the Israeli prime minister. This week, in another reversal of American policy, a high-level delegation celebrated the
New York Times (News)
Nov 25 2019
News
DOJ vows appeal after judge orders ex-White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress
Former White House counsel Don McGahn must appear before Congress pursuant to a subpoena issued earlier this year, a Washington, D.C. federal judge ruled late Monday, in a major setback to President Trump's effort to keep aides from testifying before House impeachment investigators.
If McGahn wanted to assert executive privilege to avoid testifying, U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji
Fox News Digital
Aug 10 2017
News
Forget Russia. Is Provoking a Nuclear War with North Korea Grounds for Impeachment?
Tension between the U.S. and North Korea escalated sharply Tuesday after President Trump suggested he was prepared to start a nuclear war, threatening to unleash "fire and fury" against North Korea. Hours later, North Korea threatened to strike the U.S. territory of Guam in the western Pacific. Guam is home to 163,000 people as well as major U.S. military bases. For more, we speak with
Democracy Now!