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Nov 10 2022
Analysis
‘Where’s the middle?’ In closely divided US, a country waits.
Why did the predicted red wave lap onto the beach as a relative ripple?
Some key races in the 2022 midterm elections have not yet been decided, but the vote’s bottom line seems clear: Republicans did not do as well as they hoped. Democrats showed unexpected strength, given the political fundamentals of President Joe Biden’s unpopularity and voters’ widespread economic concerns.
Christian Science MonitorDec 05 2022
Analysis
‘Twitter Files’ Paint an Ugly Portrait
On the menu today: Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi team up to offer the “Twitter files,” a look inside the internal deliberations at Twitter when it decided to block access to a New York Post story which revealed all kinds of embarrassing and scandalous information found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. You can quibble with Taibbi’s decisions here and there, but overall, the files paint an ugly portrait of
National Review (News)Nov 03 2022
News
An Ethics Watchdog Criticized Stacey Abrams. His Boss Retracted It.
Craig Holman, a campaign finance and ethics expert, has long talked to reporters about issues of money, politics and conflicts of interest. His tart quotes often waft into the digital ether without further notice.
That changed last week, when he criticized Fair Fight Action, a politically powerful voting rights group, and its founder, Stacey Abrams, who happens to be running for
New York Times (News)Jul 29 2022
Opinion
How Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election
The Supreme Court may let state legislatures decide the presidency.
Late last month, in one of its final acts of the term, the Supreme Court queued up another potentially precedent-wrecking decision for next year. The Court’s agreement to hear Moore v. Harper, a North Carolina redistricting case, isn’t just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering. The Court’s right-wing
The AtlanticJul 29 2022
News
Inside one far-right sheriff’s crusade to prove Trump’s bogus voter-fraud claims
In rural Michigan, county Sheriff Dar Leaf has teamed with a Trump-camp lawyer to chase the former president’s outlandish rigged-election theories. A member of a radical group of “constitutional sheriffs,” he’s now under investigation himself.
Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was rigged has been decisively debunked by local election officials, state and federal courts, and
ReutersJul 29 2022
News
Election deniers are running to control voting. Here's how they've fared so far
Election officials and democracy experts are sounding the alarm, as Republicans who deny the 2020 election results have now moved closer to overseeing the voting process in five different states.
Arizona could become No. 6 on Tuesday, when GOP voters there will decide in that state's primary whether they want to nominate one of the two election deniers running for secretary of state.
NPR (Online News)Sep 08 2022
News
Liberals panic as new Politico owner aims to turn outlet 'nonpartisan': Looks like CNN has company
A profile of Politico's new owner Mathias Döpfner is having liberal critics sounding the alarm.
Döpfner, the CEO of the German media company Axel Springer SE, was the subject of a lengthy piece in The Washington Post, which delved into his media business philosophy. He called his roughly $1 billion purchase of Politico in 2021 his "biggest and most contrarian bet."
"We want to
Fox News (Online News)Nov 09 2022
News
Is American democracy breaking? How would we know?
Americans concerned with the strength of their democracy would do well to look at lessons from around the world. One is a warning: It often erodes before it collapses. Another is hopeful: It has the potential for regrowth.
It’s December 2024. No one is entirely sure who will be sworn in as president of the United States in January.
In this hypothetical scenario, the Democrat
Christian Science MonitorOct 29 2014
News
Think you know how bad poverty is in your state? Think again.
Maybe poverty in your state isn't as bad as you think.
An in-depth new interactive from Jake Grovum, a reporter at Pew's Stateline project, illustrates just how much the safety net brings down the poverty rate. His interactive project has a whole series of maps and charts that show the difference between the Census' official poverty rate — the one you hear announced once a year in
VoxSep 07 2022
News
Steve Bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in New York, face new criminal indictment
Steve Bannon is expected to turn himself in to New York authorities in Manhattan on Thursday to face a new indictment connected to his "We Build the Wall" fundraising effort.
The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that the state criminal case would resemble an earlier attempted federal prosecution, in which Bannon was accused of duping donors who gave money to fund a
Fox News (Online News)