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Oct 05 2014
News
Both Parties Target Voters Who Skip Midterm Elections
Control of the Senate next year depends heavily on the efforts of volunteers such as Karen Bonnewell, a 64-year-old retired nonprofit director who spends a few nights a week calling voters on behalf of Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.
Using a red marker to color a hand-drawn thermometer, Ms. Bonnewell one recent night tracked the number of calls placed by dozens of volunteers in a cramped
Wall Street Journal (News)
Oct 05 2014
News
Some Blacks See Secret Service as Flawed Shield for the President
Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland was at the grocery store the other day when he ran into an elderly black woman who expressed growing concern about President Obama’s safety. Why, she asked, wasn’t he being better protected by his Secret Service agents?
The furor that led to this week’s resignation of the director of the Secret Service resonated deeply among blacks, outraged
New York Times (News)
Oct 01 2014
News
The GOP is gaining in the polls and on the airwaves. Coincidence?
Money is starting to flow more freely into contested Senate races for TV ads on behalf of Republican candidates, according to data from the Wesleyan Media Project. In Iowa alone, where Republican Joni Ernst leads in the race to replace retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D), the two sides bought over 11,000 ads for the two weeks from Sept. 12-25 -- 57 percent of which were for Ernst.
Why does
Washington Post
Feb 15 2014
News
Boehner Fights Back Against Tea Party, Again
A high-stakes drama played out over the debt ceiling on Capitol Hill this week. It ended with President Obama getting exactly what he'd asked for — an extension of the Treasury's borrowing authority with no strings attached — and an even wider gulf between GOP congressional leaders and Tea Party-aligned conservatives.
Underlying the Republican rift was House Speaker John Boehner's
NPR (Online News)
May 29 2012
News
Can Romney 'connect'? Poised to clinch nomination, GOP candidate faces next test
Mitt Romney, after weathering an onslaught of rotating primary challengers over the course of the last year, is poised to clinch the Republican presidential nomination as early as Tuesday. In doing so, his campaign will complete its shift, from knocking off Republican rivals one by one to challenging a single Democratic opponent, President Obama. And with the Obama campaign now pouring airtime
Fox News Digital
Dec 09 2020
Perspectives Blog
Reclaiming Nonviolence in the Age of Antiracism
Editor's Note: An abridged version of this essay was originally published on Persuasion.com, and the full version appeared on Braver Angels.
We must surely have the answer, by now, to Langston Hughes’ question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” The poet wonders—“does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?…Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?” We have seen the
John R. Wood Jr.
May 26 2016
Opinion
Will Political Winds Favor the Libertarians?
The one common thread is this presidential election is how much voters dislike the presumptive candidates of our political duopoly. The reality is — voters want more choices.
Sadly, one area where Republicans and Democrats are most willing to cooperate is stopping third party efforts with rules and regulations meant to protect the duopoly. One such reform in California now means many
HuffPost
Nov 23 2012
News
New “fiscal cliff†compromise idea: Let’s raise taxes on the rich without raising their tax rates
One possible change would tax the entire salary earned by those making more than a certain level  $400,000 or so  at the top rate of 35 percent rather than allowing them to pay lower rates before they reach the target, as is the standard formula. That plan would allow Republicans to say they did not back down in their opposition to raising marginal tax rates and Democrats to
HotAir
Mar 01 2019
News
Fox News won’t run an anti-Nazi ad, but will let Laura Ingraham compare Planned Parenthood to Hitler
Fox News: Where a historical documentary can’t run an ad warning about the dangers of fascism because it contains “disgraceful Nazi imagery,” but host Laura Ingraham can show graphics comparing Planned Parenthood to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with impunity.
During the February 26 edition of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham spent several segments delivering a sensationalized and
Media Matters
Aug 06 2023
Headline Roundup
Ohio Republicans Seek Rule Change to Block Abortion Ballot Measure
Ohioans will vote this week on a ballot measure that could kill a November abortion rights ballot measure by raising the vote threshold for it to pass.
Abortion Rights Amendment: Ohio’s constitution allows citizens to sidestep the state legislature and pass constitutional amendments via ballot measures. In November, Ohioans will vote on one such measure, backed by state Democrats,
BBC News
National Review (News)
Center For American Progress