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Dec 30 2022
Opinion
The IRS Really, Really Should Have Audited Trump
Six years after Donald Trump should have disclosed his tax returns to the public, they have finally been released. This took advocacy, congressional action, and litigation that went to the Supreme Court—all to obtain basic financial transparency from a president.
But the House Ways and Means Committee’s report on its investigation, released last week in conjunction with the committee’s
The AtlanticOct 17 2022
Analysis
Trump nips Biden in New York Times poll among likely voters
Former President Trump leads President Biden by 1 point in a hypothetical rematch, according to a New York Times-Siena College poll published Monday.
Trump leads Biden, 45 to 44 percent, when likely voters were asked whom they would support if the 2024 presidential election were held today.
That’s roughly in line with previous polling showing Trump leading Biden, Vice President
The HillAug 04 2022
Analysis
Are Minneapolis Democrats Sane Enough to Dump Ilhan Omar, Elect Don Samuels?
In the summer of 2020, as crime skyrocketed during the Covid-19 pandemic and in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, Don Samuels worried about his North Minneapolis neighborhood.
For 25 years, Samuels and his wife, Sondra, have been leaders in the effort to stabilize the Jordan neighborhood, one of the most challenged in the city, and to fight for resources. Samuels was proud of what he
National Review (News)Nov 19 2022
News
William Barr says it's "increasingly more likely" DOJ indicts Trump
The Justice Department has a legitimate basis for indicting former President Trump over the classified documents allegedly taken to Mar-a-Lago, former Attorney General Bill Barr said in an interview with PBS Friday night.
The big picture: Barr's comments came hours after current Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a special counsel to oversee the federal criminal investigations
AxiosDec 08 2022
Opinion
Who Has the Courage to Take on Trump and Biden?
Last month’s midterm elections jostled but did not dislodge the consensus view in political and media circles that the most likely scenario for the 2024 presidential election remains a rematch of the 2020 presidential election.
So the year is closing with a paradox. There is abundant evidence of the infirmities of the leading figures in both major parties. Yet for the moment the outward
PoliticoNov 07 2022
News
Starkly different visions for Arizona dominate campaign's closing days
In the frenzied closing days of the midterm campaign, Republican and Democratic candidates in Arizona are offering voters drastically different visions for the state and the country, with conservative contenders pushing a return to Trumpism and their opponents calling for "sanity."
"We know that democracy is at stake," said Katie Hobbs, Arizona's Democratic secretary of state, who is
NBC News (Online)Oct 31 2022
News
Delta pilots vote in favor of potential strike as contract talks drag on
Delta Air Lines pilots voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if contract talks between the carrier and the union don’t lead to an agreement, the labor group said Monday.
A strike wouldn’t be immediate and it would require permissions from the federal National Mediation board. The Air Line Pilots Association union said it wants a contract, not a strike.
Covid
CNBCMar 15 2023
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Concerns Near All-Time High, New Report Finds
Freedom of the press is an essential part of our democracy in the U.S., allowing citizens to access information about the government, news, and more to make informed decisions. Unfortunately, according to a recent report published by Gallup (Center) and the Knight Foundation, there is growing distrust of news outlets and accusations of media bias in today’s climate.
This growing
Andrew WeinzierlMar 30 2023
Perspectives Blog
How Much Less Available to the Media is Biden Compared to Past Presidents?
President Biden sometimes seems at odds with the press, and other times, he seems to avoid the press altogether. But is that reality, or what the press wants you to think?
Both sides of partisan media have highlighted Biden’s dust-ups and frustrations with reporters (like when he called Fox News’s Peter Doocy a ‘stupid SOB’), how he’s gone months at a time without holding news
Henry A. BrechterNov 18 2022
Opinion
Title 42, the xenophobic Trump-era migrant policy, is dead (again)
Title 42, the xenophobic policy that allowed U.S. officials to turn migrants away at the border because of Covid, was ruled unconstitutional by a judge who put an end to it Monday.
Title 42 is a holdover from the Trump administration that was conceived by white nationalist White House adviser Stephen Miller. Effectively, the policy allowed the Trump administration to bar
MSNBC