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Jul 26 2022
Headline Roundup
How Do We Know if We’re in a Recession?
Some voices from the right have accused the Biden administration of trying to “redefine” how a recession is measured. How will we know if the U.S. economy has entered a recession?
The debate around defining recessions kicked off with a White House blog post from July 21 which said the common definition — two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction — was “neither the official definition
CNBC
Washington Post 
Fox Business 
Mar 25 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Congress, Trump Unite to Pass $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus
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Updated 3/27/2020 at 4:54 p.m. ET: President Donald Trump signed a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill into law Friday afternoon, aimed at stabilizing the economy and American life amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
The legislation — the largest of its kind in U.S. history — includes direct payments to
Henry A. Brechter
Dec 17 2012
News
Electoral College set to affirm Obama re-election
Tradition trumped suspense Monday as members of the Electoral College cast the official, final votes in an exhausting 2012 presidential election, a constitutional formality on President Barack Obama's march to a second term.
The rite playing in state capitols involved party luminaries and tireless activists carrying out the will of each state's voters. The popular vote from state-to-
HuffPost
Nov 14 2023
Headline Roundup
Inflation Drops to 3.2% in October
The annual inflation rate fell in October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, inching closer to the Federal Reserve’s standard 2% target rate.
The Details: Consumer prices rose 3.2% in the 12 months ending in October, a drop from August and September’s 3.7% rate. Within the month of October, overall prices rose 0%. While some of the price cooling came from falling gas prices,
CNN Business
CNBC
Fox Business
Mar 09 2020
Headline Roundup
6 State Primaries, Including Michigan, Set for Biden-Sanders Duel
Six states, including the perennial swing state of Michigan, hold primary elections Tuesday. Media coverage has concentrated on the competition between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, with many framing the primaries as crucial for Sanders. Others focused on how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting candidates'
Detroit Free Press
New York Post (News)
Associated Press
Jan 17 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Impeachment Moves to the Senate
A team of House representatives chosen as "impeachment managers" present the articles against President Donald Trump to the Senate Thursday afternoon, setting in motion the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history.
Opening arguments begin next Tuesday, when 100 Senators become jurors and prepare to hear each side make its case. A Senate decision on dismissing the articles or
Henry A. Brechter
Jul 22 2018
Headline Roundup
Justice Department Releases Carter Page FISA Documents
The Department of Justice on Saturday released a previously top-secret, heavily redacted set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page in 2016. Page was a Trump campaign adviser at that time, and his surveillance has since become a controversial topic, with both the Democratic and Republican Intelligence Committee memos being released earlier this year. President Trump has reacted
New York Times (News)
The Hill
Fox News (Online News) 
Feb 07 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: President Trump Acquitted of Two Impeachment Charges
The third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history ended Wednesday, as President Donald Trump was acquitted of two charges in Senate votes that largely mirrored party lines.
Senators voted 52-48 to acquit the president of abuse of power and 53-47 to acquit him of obstructing Congress. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) was the only senator to break party lines in either vote by voting to
Henry A. Brechter
Mar 24 2019
Headline Roundup
Mueller Report Finds No Trump-Russian Collusion
"The Special Counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election," wrote Attorney General William Barr in a letter to Congress summarizing the report. Further, Special Counsel Mueller did not conclude that Trump obstructed justice, but did not exonerate him
CNN (Online News)
NPR (Online News)
Washington Times
Nov 05 2012
News
Republicans See Early Vote Surge Trending for Romney
Republicans are getting very optimistic about new trends emerging in early voting results in key states, which mostly shows Democrats casting more early ballots but not at the pace that Obama set in his victory in 2008 over Republican John McCain by 7 percentage points.
"What we're seeing consistently ... is that there is a general underperforming in places where President Obama needs
Newsmax (News)