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Dec 17 2021
News
Congress Passes Ban on Goods From China’s Xinjiang Region Over Forced Labor Concerns
The Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to approve legislation that would ban the import of a wide array of products made in China’s Xinjiang region in a drive to prevent companies from sourcing goods produced through forced labor by persecuted Muslim minorities.
Its passage was a victory for supporters of an aggressive human rights measure that faced a fierce corporate lobbying
New York Times (News)Apr 08 2022
Fact Check
Biden Repeats Misleading Talking Point on Preexisting Conditions
In praising the Affordable Care Act, President Joe Biden misleadingly warned of the consequences if Republicans ever repealed the law, saying that would mean “100 million Americans with preexisting conditions can once again be denied health care coverage by their insurance companies.” But those Americans could only be denied coverage on the individual market.
Employer-based plans, the
FactCheck.orgFeb 25 2022
Analysis
The Attorney General’s Race Is Texas Democrats’ Best Statewide Pickup Opportunity
Rochelle Garza was nearly eight months pregnant when she took the stage for her final in-person event of the race for the Democratic party’s nomination for attorney general: a candidate forum in Denton on February 18. “My doctor told me, ‘You need to stay in the Rio Grande Valley until your due date,’” she explained. But first, the Brownsville-based former staff attorney for the ACLU of Texas
Texas MonthlyMay 19 2022
News
Dems in Disarray: Vulnerable Members Want Leadership Change, Internal Polling Looks Bleak
Political junkies' attention has been focused on the latest batch of primary election results this week, but just beneath the surface, huge and damaging fissures appear to be opening up among embattled House Democrats. For months, the conventional wisdom has held that 2022 is going to be a bad cycle for the ruling party and that Republicans were virtually guaranteed to win a majority in at
TownhallFeb 24 2022
News
Exclusive: U.S. Expects Kyiv to Fall in Days as Ukraine Source Warns of Encirclement
Three U.S. officials have told Newsweek they expect Ukraine's capital Kyiv to fall to incoming Russian forces within days, and the country's resistance to be effectively neutralized soon thereafter.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Moscow's focus, as revealed in Russian President Vladimir Putin's references to a "special military operation" to "
NewsweekMar 11 2022
Analysis
Nation’s most powerful Democrats took Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax as gospel before story crumbled
Disgraced actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced on Thursday after being convicted last year of faking a hate crime against himself and lying about it to Chicago police, capping the swift fall from grace for the "Empire" star who had everyone from Joe Biden to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeting their support prior to his story falling apart.
Smollett was sentenced to 30 months felony
Fox News DigitalApr 29 2022
Opinion
A better presidential primary for 2024
No election in the United States is as important as our elections for president. Yet if the last two cycles have told us anything, it’s that how we nominate presidents is broken and deeply unrepresentative – a process as much about dumb luck as it is about candidate quality or ability to unify voters. But we may be about to see a change.
The Democratic Party would be a trailblazer if it
The FulcrumNov 19 2021
Conversation Guide
Politics in Faith Communities
The First Amendment of our Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Under the Internal Revenue Code, 501(c)(3) organizations are prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office
Living Room ConversationsJan 27 2022
News
Tennessee school board bans teaching of Holocaust graphic novel Maus
A school board in Tennessee has banned a Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the Holocaust from being taught in its classrooms.
Board members voted in favour of banning the novel because it contained swear words and a naked illustration.
The graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale depicts how the author's parents survived Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
Author Art Spiegelman
BBC NewsMar 24 2022
Opinion
Ketanji Brown Jackson Sits On The Board Of A School That Teaches Preschoolers To ‘Dismantle Cisgender Privilege’
Georgetown Day School, where Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson serves on the board of trustees, recently hosted a critical race theorist to indoctrinate pre-K students as part of a “Black Lives Matter at School’s Week of Action,” a campaign that seeks to turn children into extremist political activists.
Fox News recently reported that the school promotes critical race theory
The Federalist