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May 27 2021
Analysis
Understanding China Is Getting Harder Every Month
It has never been easy to write about China, but today access is harder, and sources are more limited than they have been for decades. The pandemic hasn’t helped—since March 2020, China’s borders have been closed to most non-Chinese citizens. The result of this is that it is even harder for outsiders—and even most Chinese—to understand what is happening inside the country.
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Foreign PolicyJul 06 2020
News
Senate outlook slides for GOP
Democrats are within striking distance of retaking the Senate majority in November, while Republicans are facing an increasingly difficult electoral map as President Trump’s sagging poll numbers threaten to drag down vulnerable GOP incumbents.
Several recent polls show Democratic challengers leading Republican incumbents in Arizona, North Carolina and Iowa. The GOP is also fending off
The HillOct 01 2014
News
Justices poised to tackle constitutional right of same-sex marriage
The one-sentence order from the U.S. Supreme Court was brief but emphatic. The year was 1972 and the justices were asked to decide something extraordinary in that era: whether an openly gay couple from Minnesota had a "fundamental right" under the Constitution to legally wed. In just 13 words, the court under Chief Justice Warren Burger dismissed the Baker v. Nelson petition, "for want of a
CNN DigitalJul 17 2019
News
House Condemns Trump ‘Racist’ Tweets in Extraordinary Rebuke
In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump’s “racist comments” against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t “a racist bone in my body.”
Two days after Trump tweeted that four Democratic freshmen should “go back” to their
CBNJun 28 2015
News
Same-sex marriage: A matter of dignity
A matter of "dignity" is how Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy cast his majority opinion upholding the right to same-sex marriage.
CBS News (Online)Aug 26 2019
News
Journalism Won’t Get Us Out of This
Journalism has been among the heroes of the #MeToo movement. Journalism has surfaced the women who were finally ready to speak out against Harvey Weinstein, stalled and almost blocked the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, and triggered the re-arrest of Jeffrey Epstein. Journalism has stepped into the void that had been created by an economic system in which wealthy men could use an array of legal
SlateJun 25 2015
News
Fox News has a conspiracy theory for the ages: Obama secretly wants his healthcare law destroyed!
With the Supreme Courts ACA ruling pending, Fox News squeezed in one more flagrantly stupid King v. Burwell take.
SalonMar 03 2015
News
Obama Strategy in Health Law Case: Have No Backup
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on Wednesday on whether to invalidate a crucial part of the president’s health care law, Obama administration officials say they are doing nothing to prepare for what could be a catastrophic defeat.
There are no contingency plans in place if the court invalidates the Affordable Care Act subsidies that 7.5 million people in 34 states are
New York Times (News)Jul 29 2019
News
All Things Immigration
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding.” (Reuters)
The left focused on the horrific conditions at the border detention facilities and remains
The Flip SideOct 21 2021
Perspectives Blog
AllStances™: Free Speech on Campus
Do college administrators have a duty to protect students against harmful speech and negative emotional consequences? Or is the purpose of college education to expose yourself to different views and build resiliency against bad ideas? Explore all perspectives, stances, and arguments for and against free speech on college campuses with AllStances™ by AllSides.
Henry A. Brechter