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Nov 10 2020
News
Vaccine Trial Raises Hopes, But Distribution Will Challenge States
States have worked vigorously for months on their COVID-19 vaccine plans but still face a long list of substantial uncertainties, even as hopes rise that the first vaccines could receive federal approval before the end of the year.
Despite the unknowns and the enormity of the task ahead — vaccinating a population of 330 million — state public health officials feel more confident in
Pew Research Center
May 03 2021
Perspectives Blog
How Joe Biden Can Renew America’s National Dialogue
Reweaving the fabric of civil dialogue must be a national priority, and mediation is the way to do it right. “Too many Americans see our public life, not as an arena for mediation of our differences,” Joe Biden has observed, but “as an occasion for total, unrelenting, partisan warfare.” Mediation can be defined as the convening of people across differences in service of responsible problem-
Eugene B. Kogan
Feb 11 2021
Opinion
California Is Making Liberals Squirm
If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?
You may have heard that San Francisco’s Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to rename 44 schools, stripping ancient racists of their laurels, but also Abraham Lincoln and Senator Dianne Feinstein. The history upon which these decisions were made was dodgy, and the results occasionally bizarre. Paul
Ezra Klein
Mar 17 2020
News
DOJ memo shows Clinton, Obama, and Trump donor’s shady foreign campaign finance schemes
Federal prosecutors detailed the alleged foreign lobbying schemes carried out by Imaad Zuberi in a lengthy memo on Tuesday, alleging the Southern California campaign fundraiser who donated to Democrats and Republicans concealed work for shadowy interests around the world.
Zuberi, 42, pleaded guilty in October to charges of tax evasion, making nearly $1 million in illegal campaign
Washington Examiner
Apr 30 2019
News
GOP sets up firewall for Trump on Mueller
Senate Republicans are beginning to set up a firewall for President Trump against special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, pushing back at a slew of Democratic attacks on the president’s conduct as described in the document.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Monday set the tone for his caucus’s rank and file, signaling the GOP will join the White House in casting Democratic attacks
The Hill
Mar 10 2020
News
Lawmakers race to respond to outbreak; Trump comes to Hill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that House Democrats will stay at work this week as “captains of the ship” confronting the coronavirus outbreak as President Donald Trump came to Capitol Hill to confer with Senate Republicans about his proposed payroll tax relief.
The Trump administration and lawmakers are racing to respond to the epidemic and the related financial
Associated Press
Feb 24 2020
News
The evidence doesn't back Democrats' panic that Bernie can't win
Lots of Democrats are in full panic that Bernie Sanders will win the nomination and get clobbered in the general election — and bring the party down, too. But the evidence, particularly the polling, doesn't back those doomsday warnings.
Why it matters: Virtually every national and swing state poll shows Sanders tied with or beating President Trump. And, unlike every rival, he has a
Axios
Jun 10 2020
News
AG Barr: "Very Troubled" By Durham Probe, Familiar Names Tried To Sabotage Trump Campaign
Attorney General Bill Barr gave an update on U.S. Attorney John Durham's probe into federal surveillance abuses conducted by the FBI and DOJ while they investigated Michael Flynn and presidential candidate Donald Trump. Barr said the FBI was "spring-loaded" to investigate Trump's campaign and ignored exculpatory evidence.
"I think before the election, I think we're concerned about the
RealClearPolitics
Dec 21 2019
Analysis
What’s the Point of Impeachment?
When you express skepticism about impeaching Donald Trump to some comrades on the Left, there’s a reflexive, almost formulaic, reaction. You don’t understand how terrible he is, and how great the urgency of booting him is. The man is a walking insult to our Constitution! Sure, the articles of impeachment may not cover his worst crimes, but hey, we can turn it all to our advantage. Max Sawicky
Jacobin