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Jun 03 2020
News
Steve King goes down, and other top takeaways from Tuesday's primaries
Iowa Republicans drove Steve King out of office on a primary day marked by civil unrest.
King's defeat was the top headline in Tuesday's primaries. The nine-term congressman with a history of racist and anti-immigrant remarks was ousted after the GOP establishment offered his opponent both material and symbolic assistance.
In other races, Democrats' top recruit for the Iowa
PoliticoAug 29 2013
News
Syria's best case, Syria's worst case
President Barack Obama hasn’t even ordered an attack on Syria to punish it for using chemical weapons, but Washington is already asking: What next? Best case: The Navy’s Tomahawk cruise missiles prevent Syrian President Bashar Assad from launching another chemical attack and hasten the end to a civil war that has taken an estimated 100,000 lives.
PoliticoAug 28 2013
Opinion
MLK would be alarmed by black-on-black violence, lack of family values
It is hard to believe that 50 years have elapsed since the famous I have a dream speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Mall in Washington. I was an 11-year-old child in Detroit languishing in the midst of poverty but very interested in the strides that were being made in the civil rights movement. I was quite optimistic that things were getting better for black people in America.
Washington TimesAug 24 2013
News
Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr.
On this, black civil rights leaders agree: President Barack Obama isn’t the second coming of Martin Luther King Jr. It’s tempting to compare the two men – “inevitable,” the New York Times said this week – but allies and some critics in the black community say Obama is not the leader of a movement. Instead, Obama is playing a different role in a different time.
PoliticoMar 12 2021
News
Trump dives into battle for Senate
Donald Trump sounds like he’s ready for a GOP civil war. But he’s also eager to play a leading role in Senate Republicans' battle for the majority.
The former president is dialing up GOP senators to back their campaigns and talk strategy, weighing how to approach primaries in critical open seats and making sure he leaves an imprint on the midterm elections. Trump’s involvement, revealed
PoliticoJul 15 2015
News
How Polarization Weakened Confederate Flag Support
reaction to Dylann Roof’s act of racial terrorism would be, I would never have come up with “the collapse of state- and corporate-sponsored Confederate nostalgia.” We have, after all, had numerous acts of racial violence and gun violence in the past few years, which have spawned discussions of a broad swath of issues: Stand-your-ground laws, the justifications for rioting, the scope and
RealClearPoliticsDialogue & Debate
Listen First Project
Listen First Project's media bias rating is mixed. Listen First Project encourages conversations towards increased respect and understanding—driving the Listen First movement to restore relationships, bridge divides, and mend the frayed fabric of society. Take the Listen First to Understand pledge to show your commitment to bridging divides and understanding others.
Oct 18 2014
News
SCOTUS allows Texas voter ID to stand
The Supreme Court will allow Texas to enforce its new voter ID law in next month’s election, the court said in an unusual Saturday morning order. Rejecting requests from the Obama administration and civil rights groups, the justices declined to re-impose an injunction against the law granted last week by a district court judge but lifted Tuesday by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
PoliticoMay 27 2020
News
Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive
A Facebook Inc. FB -1.32% team had a blunt message for senior executives. The company’s algorithms weren’t bringing people together. They were driving people apart.
“Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,” read a slide from a 2018 presentation. “If left unchecked,” it warned, Facebook would feed users “more and more divisive content in an effort to gain
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 17 2020
Opinion
Why the 2020 Election Makes It Hard to Be Optimistic About the Future
The 2020 election is over. And the big winners were the coronavirus and, quite possibly, catastrophic climate change.
OK, democracy also won, at least for now. By defeating Donald Trump, Joe Biden pulled us back from the brink of authoritarian rule.
But Trump paid less of a penalty than expected for his deadly failure to deal with Covid-19, and few down-ballot Republicans seem to
Paul Krugman