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Apr 28 2020
News
Justin Amash forms exploratory committee for third-party presidential run
Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.) announced on Tuesday that he has "launched an exploratory committee" to seek the Libertarian Party's 2020 presidential nomination.
Why it matters: Amash gained notoriety last year when he came out as the lone House Republican to support the impeachment of President Trump following the publication of the Mueller report. He later switched his party affiliation
Axios
Oct 30 2019
News
Kamala Harris will lay off dozens of campaign staffers
Sen. Kamala Harris — who has largely held on as a top-tier polling candidate after standing out in 2020 debates — is laying off dozens of her campaign aides as her campaign manager cuts his own salary, Politico reports.
The big picture, via Axios' Alexi McCammond: Harris is not the only candidate facing a cash crunch with more staffers than she can probably afford, but these layoffs are
Axios
Nov 16 2020
Perspectives Blog
Reopening Schools During COVID-19: Democrats, Republicans Both Care About Their Children's Well-Being
With the 2020 election process winding down, focus should increase on issues facing communities such as managing school reopening and virtual learning during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
In this time of hyper-partisanship and limitless access to information, it’s easy to find positions on school reopening with which we strongly disagree. But as we wrestle with political
Rolf Hendriks
Dec 03 2020
Opinion
Why The Washington Post ran an ad that claimed the election was rigged
The Washington Post made the questionable decision on Tuesday to run a full-page ad from a private citizen who argued that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. The ad said it was paid for by Lawrence Gelman of McAllen, Texas.
One section of the ad reads, “That the incumbent should be more popular in the re-election bid than when first elected, as noted by receiving more votes in
Poynter
Dec 09 2019
News
Who’s Leading The Democratic Primary In The First Four States?
More than just the four early states will decide the 2020 Democratic primary. After all, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina only make up about 4 percent of the total delegates awarded, whereas the 16 states and territories1 that vote next on Super Tuesday contribute more than a third. But because these four states vote first, they play an outsized role in winnowing the candidate
538 (ABC News)
Jun 27 2021
Opinion
What the hysteria over critical race theory is really all about
Watching the news or browsing social media, it would be easy to think that critical race theory is a complicated, controversial, or new idea.
But critical race theory, created four decades ago by legal scholars, is an academic framework for examining how racism is embedded in America’s laws and institutions. It is just now receiving widespread attention because it has morphed into a
Vox
Jan 29 2020
News
Dave Chappelle campaigns for Andrew Yang ahead of Iowa caucuses
Funnyman Dave Chappelle is in Iowa stumping for his Democratic candidate of choice Andrew Yang ahead of next week’s first-in-the-nation caucus.
Chappelle, who endorsed Yang earlier this month, spoke to reporters in Ames, Iowa, Tuesday ahead of the candidate’s rally, during which he brought the comedy legend onstage to surprise supporters.
Asked what he liked about the 2020
New York Post (News)
Aug 12 2020
News
Twitter plans clampdown on mail-in voting misinformation amid friction with Trump
Twitter said Wednesday it plans to expand its rules against misleading information about mail-in ballots and early voting, a move that could have major implications for the social media platform’s handling of tweets by President Donald Trump and his allies.
The company told POLITICO it’s exploring ways to broaden its policies against misinformation about mail-in voting to cover a wider
Politico
May 21 2021
Analysis
America Offline
We’ve just lived through the most online period in history. What comes next?
My most intimate relationship of 2020 was with the internet. I did my job online, and talked to my friends online, and streamed hundreds of hours of TV that I’d already seen online, just to fill my empty apartment with human sounds. I used the internet to put scary Instagram filters on my face, and join a
The Atlantic
Oct 10 2020
Opinion
Dems Are Old Hands at Packing State High Courts
If you’re wondering why Joe Biden still won’t say whether he supports packing the U.S. Supreme Court if he’s elected president, it’s because he doesn’t have to. His Democratic Party has been actively transforming state courts into legislative backstops for years – and will undoubtedly pressure Biden to do the same to our nation’s high court, if given the chance.
In states across the
RealClearPolitics