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Jun 15 2020
News
Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim
DETROIT (AP) — African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the pandemic.
Eleven percent of African Americans say they were close with someone who has died from the coronavirus
Associated PressJun 07 2021
Perspectives Blog
When There Are No More Rabbits in Nancy Pelosi’s Hat
From The CenterThis view is from an author rated as Center.
When an armed mob invades the U.S. Capitol and threatens the lives of their elected representatives, it seems reasonable to investigate the causes for the insurrection to keep it from happening again. But for congressional Republicans who understand that such a January 6 commission would likely focus on the actions of the
Dan SchnurAug 26 2021
Opinion
Biden Abandons Our Allies: What It’s Really Like on the Ground in Kabul
On the menu today: I’m going to warn you ahead of time, I’ve heard from my reader trying to get his former Afghan employees out of the country, and the news is very bad. Don’t let the happy talk coming from well-dressed officials behind lecterns in Washington fool you. The situation on the ground is chaotic and dangerous, and the outlook for hundreds of thousands of Afghans is about as grim as
Jim GeraghtySep 17 2020
Opinion
Staying civil and unified in a divided world
With our current political leaders, we live in a divided nation. It may be easier to be closed-minded on political and cultural views, but it will ultimately do more harm.
Missouri is a red state, which bodes well for some agendas and doesn’t for others. The University of Missouri remains a fairly liberal campus, yet there are plenty of conflicts of interest between student political
Guest Writer - CenterOct 19 2019
News
Poll Shows Trump Topping Biden, Warren in Iowa Matchups
President Trump is edging out Democrat frontrunners Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Joe Biden (D) in head to head matchups in the Hawkeye State, Iowa Emerson College poll results released this week show.
The poll – taken October 13-16, 2019, among 888 registered voters in Iowa – showed the president leading both Warren and Biden in hypothetical general election matchups in Iowa,
Breitbart NewsDec 31 2019
Background
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang is a Democratic candidate for president of the United States in 2020. He filed to run for the office on November 6, 2017.
The cornerstone of Yang's platform is the universal basic income (UBI). Yang describes the UBI as "a form of social security that guarantees a certain amount of money to every citizen within a given governed population, without having to pass a test or
BallotpediaMar 04 2021
News
GOP pulling out all the stops to delay COVID-19 package
Senate Republicans are taking on a risky strategy to use all the procedural tactics at their disposal to delay President Biden’s popular $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package as long as possible in hopes that they can turn public opinion against the legislation.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a staunch ally of former President Trump, is leading the resistance effort and says he is trying to
The HillMay 27 2017
News
Clinton compares Trump to Nixon in fiery speech at alma mater
Back on campus 48 years later, Hillary Clinton didn't hold back. In a fiery commencement speech at her alma mater of Wellesley College on Friday, Clinton went after President Donald Trump and the controversies that are swirling around him, comparing his imperiled presidency to that of Richard Nixon's.
CNN DigitalAug 21 2018
News
Teardown of North Carolina Confederate statue sparks criminal probe
University of North Carolina police began a criminal probe on Tuesday into the tearing down by activists of a statue of a Confederate soldier, the latest action to dismantle U.S. Civil War symbols amid debate about race and the legacy of slavery.
ReutersJan 26 2021
Opinion
Our Government Needs to Prioritize Veteran Wellbeing Over Endless War
“I got out of the Marines and within a few years, 15 of my buddies had killed themselves,” one veteran rifleman who served two tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq between 2003 and 2011 said to me recently. “One minute they belonged and the next, they were out, and they couldn’t fit in. They had nowhere to work, no one who related to them. And they had these PTSD symptoms that made them react in
The Nation