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Aug 01 2019
Opinion
Joe Biden Did Fine, and That Might Have Been Enough
One month after a wobbly debate performance that reinforced the perceived weaknesses of the ostensible front-runner — Is he too old? Too nostalgically moderate? Too politically brittle to defend himself when challenged? — former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. settled behind his center-stage lectern on Wednesday night and supplied some answers: He is still old. He is still nostalgic. And he
Guest Writer - Left
Nov 02 2014
News
At Michigan Rally, Obama Wades Into First and Only Senate Race
President Barack Obama headlined his first and only campaign event with a 2014 Senate candidate this election cycle, just three days before voters head to the polls to decide which party will control the Senate during his last two years in office.
By appearing Saturday night with Democrat Gary Peters, who holds a double-digit lead over Republican Terri Land in public-opinion surveys, Mr
Wall Street Journal (News)
Mar 14 2015
News
Why the Obama administration is fighting for a trade deal its liberal allies hate
It's hard to find a voice on the left willing to speak up for the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. Unions are freezing donations to Democrats in protest of it. Elizabeth Warren is fighting it. Robert Reich is campaigning against it, as is Joseph Stiglitz. Paul Krugman is a soft no, and he wonders: "Why, exactly, should the Obama administration spend any political capital — alienating labor,
Vox
Jun 07 2019
News
Joe Biden reveres course on abortion funding after backlash over Hyde Amendment stance
Joe Biden reversed his position Thursday night on a key issue to Democratic voters, revealing he no longer supports a measure that prohibits using federal funds to cover most abortions.
The former vice president's campaign had said he backed the law, known as the Hyde Amendment, as recently as Wednesday. His decision to throw out his long-held support of the measure came amid mounting
Salon
Dec 08 2013
News
How Mandela Expanded The Art Of The Possible
When I was coming of age in the late 1970s, as an African-American high-schooler and college student, I had two certainties: Nelson Mandela would die in prison in apartheid South Africa and no black person would become U.S. president in my lifetime.
So much for my youthful powers of prediction.
Little could I have known then that I would become a journalist who would one day get
NPR (Online News)
Oct 23 2019
Opinion
Donald Trump’s Quid Pro Quo Is Now a Smoking Gun
Mr. Trump’s own acting envoy, William Taylor, described how the president tried to force Ukraine to advance his political interests.
If Tuesday’s congressional testimony by William Taylor, the acting United States envoy to Ukraine, is to be taken at face value — and no one in the Trump administration has yet denied a word of it — then it is now beyond doubt: President Trump placed his
New York Times (Opinion)
Oct 20 2014
News
Here's Another Indication Senate Control Won't Be Decided In November
In another sign that control of the Senate may not be decided on Nov. 4, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has made a big ad reservation to support Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in a December runoff.
The more than $2 million reservation, first reported by The New York Times, was made on Friday. Landrieu is facing a challenge from Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy and tea party
HuffPost
Oct 19 2014
News
For Republicans, Hard Lessons From a Key State
If Republicans are in control of both houses of Congress next year — which is looking probable two weeks before the elections — House Speaker John A. Boehner and the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, could use some guidance from North Carolina: Don’t overreach.
As of now, in a race that could go either way, the incumbent senator, Kay Hagan, a Democrat, is a slight favorite over
New York Times (News)
Sep 11 2019
News
Bolton's firing empowers Pompeo, opens door for Trump diplomacy
President Trump’s stunning dismissal of John R. Bolton clears the stage for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — along with Vice President Mike Pence, one of the few members of Mr. Trump’s original national security inner circle still standing — to wield more influence over a raft of foreign policy challenges confronting the White House.
While Mr. Pompeo was publicly aligned with the ousted
Washington Times
Sep 10 2019
News
‘He’s Like, Okay, Well, Screw It’
Beto O’Rourke last week stopped here for beers. He wasn’t hunting big-dollar donors or votes in a state with a meaningful primary. He instead wanted to stand on a box in the middle of a pub and just let it rip. So that’s what he did. The crowd was young, diverse and notably not reaching to write checks, but they were plenty ready to hear his profane riff on his proposed gun buybacks. He downed
Politico