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Sep 10 2020
Analysis
The Flawed Genius of the Constitution
Why do i love the U.S. Constitution? This instrument formally converted the worth of my great-great-grandfather Sidiphus into three-fifths’ that of a free person. Living in the East Indies as a free man, Sidiphus had been tricked into enslavement—recruited to a Georgia farm just before the Civil War by the promise of a foremanship. Had he managed to escape Georgia and bondage prior to the
The AtlanticApr 01 2020
News
A Brief History of the Census—and How Covid-19 Could Change It
THE UNITED STATES is currently undertaking its population census, the once-a-decade effort to count every single person living here. More than 150 other countries will join in this world census round—the 10-year period centered on 2020, and around 90 percent of the world’s population has already been or will be counted.
But while impressive on a human scale, a modern census is
WiredDec 28 2020
Headline Roundup
House Overrides Trump's Defense Bill Veto
The U.S. House voted 322-87 Monday to override President Donald Trump's veto of the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act. The bill includes funding for military programs, construction projects, a 3% pay raise for military, and renaming of military bases named for Confederate generals. In a letter to Congress on Wednesday, Trump said he vetoed the $740 billion annual defense
Washington Post NPR (Online News) Newsmax (News)Apr 17 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Washington waits, but Mueller may solve nothing
A feeling of uneasy anticipation hangs over Washington ahead of the release of a redacted version of Robert Mueller's report Thursday.
Many in the White House seem braced for bad news -- which is odd considering President Donald Trump has already claimed complete absolution from the special counsel. But that pessimism is also shared by the President's Democratic enemies.
Once,
Guest Writer - LeftJun 12 2020
News
America's Long Overdue Awakening to Systemic Racism
In Lafayette Park, just steps away from the White House, a wealthy hotelier ran a second business selling enslaved men and women to the highest bidder.
He kept them in a brick cell beside his mansion, and at night an observer recalled hearing “their howls and cries.”
Today in the park there is no plaque, no bench and no monument, to paraphrase Toni Morrison, to memorialize the
Time MagazineMay 31 2019
News
The Memo: Trump's anti-Mueller rage is for real
President Trump isn’t trying to goad Democrats into impeachment, after all — he is genuinely angry at the prospect.
That’s the main conclusion to be drawn from Trump’s furious reaction to the first public comments from former special counsel Robert Mueller on his report into allegations of Russian collusion.
Mueller on Wednesday emphasized that he had not been able to exonerate
The HillAug 02 2021
Perspectives Blog
Why the American Flag Is Dividing Us
I recently spent a few days on the North Fork beaches of Long Island, New York. It was amazing how many American flags we passed on our daily strolls, proudly flying on front porches, affixed to roadside fruit stands, and draped over rustic barn doors.
I felt surprised; confused by the display of patriotism in what I assumed was a Democratic stronghold. Mystery solved when I
Rebecca SheehanAug 19 2019
Opinion
LA Mayor: Who we should really be listening to after Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso
Today, the names of so many cities and towns are more closely associated with memorials -- in the aftermath of mass shootings -- than monuments.
While many mayors haven't had to face mass shootings, almost all of us have dealt with scores of deaths by guns in our communities.
As a result, there is now a grim circle of mayors -- from Las Vegas to Orlando and San Bernardino to
CNN (Opinion)Dec 31 2020
Opinion
The family gap
n a speech to the Federalist Society in November, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reiterated his concern that ‘in certain quarters, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right’. Small wonder that the subject was on his mind. A week earlier, the Court had heard oral arguments in the latest religious-liberty case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. In it, Catholic Social Services — one
The American SpectatorJun 20 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Joe Biden’s Segregationist Problem
His rivals, beginning with Cory Booker and Bill de Blasio, have already started to pounce.
By any standard, Joe Biden is the Democratic presidential front-runner. The poll averages at RealClearPolitics, for example, show Biden with a commanding 32–15 lead over Bernie Sanders in national polls and leading Sanders by 27 percentage points in South Carolina, 13 in New Hampshire, 13 in
Guest Writer - Right