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Oct 13 2021
Opinion
Biden’s incoherent immigration policy
President Biden proposed humane immigration reforms but continued harsh, Trump-era enforcement policies at the border.
There is a growing gulf between the progressive immigration values President Joe Biden professes and the enforcement policies he’s implementing at the border — and it’s led to confusion among immigration officials, uncertainty for migrants, and questions about whether
VoxOct 13 2021
News
Nonpartisan redistricting? Reform efforts meet reality.
New commissions, some made up of average citizens, are struggling to overcome partisanship as they redraw congressional and state legislative lines. Some say reformers need to rethink the whole process.
Redistricting was supposed to look different this year.
In the 10 years since the nation’s congressional and state legislative maps were last redrawn, a record-breaking number of
Christian Science MonitorOct 10 2020
Analysis
How a pandemic exposed – and may help fix – inequalities in education
In the early 2010s, Jon Valant, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy, began researching Americans’ perception of the “achievement gap,” mainstream lingo for the difference in educational outcomes between historically advantaged and disadvantaged students.
What he found surprised him.
As a scholar of education, he thought it was clear
Christian Science MonitorOct 01 2021
News
Andrew Yang: Universal Basic Income 'Inevitable,' Lauds $1K Payments as Best Part of Campaign
Andrew Yang may not have won the presidential election, but he credits his campaign with moving the country towards the "inevitable" implementation of a universal basic income program in the United States.
Yang has become synonymous with universal basic income and initially sought to focus his presidential campaign around the concept, not himself. Once a fringe theory, the possibility
NewsweekJul 27 2020
News
John Lewis
“The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon. The bridge became a landmark in the fight for racial justice when Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten there 55 years ago on ‘Bloody Sunday,’ a key event that helped galvanize support for the passage of the Voting Rights
The Flip SideAug 13 2018
News
Trump acts surprised by Omarosa firing on new secret tape
Omarosa Manigault Newman on Monday morning released a recording of a private phone call after her firing from the White House with President Trump.
The HillDec 06 2021
News
It’s official: Perdue to challenge Kemp for Ga. governor, ensuring divisive GOP primary
Former U.S. senator David Perdue of Georgia made his plans official Monday to challenge incumbent Brian Kemp for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, launching what is widely anticipated to be an ugly and divisive race centered on Donald Trump’s loss in the state in 2020.
“Unfortunately today we are divided, and Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger are to blame,” Perdue said in a video
Washington PostSep 18 2021
Analysis
Senate Republicans say they will vote to allow a debt default, leaving Democrats scrambling for plan to avert economic crisis
Early last year, one of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s longest rivals offered a lesson about why the Kentucky Republican is unfazed by his critics whenever he digs in on a political strategy.
“The people in Kentucky who know him understand that he can’t be shamed into changing,” Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), who has worked with and clashed with McConnell for more than 50 years,
Washington PostDec 30 2020
News
America's unprecedented and explosive year in politics
As 2020 ends, so does one of the most explosive and unprecedented years in American politics.
The nation witnessed its leaders clashing amid a presidential impeachment, a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and an election delayed by extended vote counts and legal battles.
It was a year of firsts: The first time a president sought reelection after being impeached; the first woman elected
ABC News (Online)Feb 12 2021
Opinion
Dr. Justin Frank on the trial: For Trump, Capitol riot was a source of "incredible pleasure"
On Thursday, House impeachment managers finished their presentation of the case against Donald Trump, arguing that he should be convicted for the crime of inciting an insurrectionist attack against the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
The video, photographic and other documentary evidence of Trump's responsibility for the attack on the Capitol is overwhelming. He has no reasonable defense for
Salon