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Nov 03 2022
Perspectives Blog
AllStances™: Is Voter Fraud or Voter Suppression a Bigger Issue?
Is voter suppression or election security and voter fraud the bigger issue in U.S. elections?
The left and right perspectives on election integrity show how both sides disagree majorly whether American voting laws suppress certain groups or are insecure and prone to fraud. From the January 6 Capitol riot to calls for increased accessibility and ease of voting, both sides are calling
Isaiah AnthonyAug 20 2019
News
Could Trump Drive Young White Evangelicals Away From The GOP?
A central message of President Trump’s insurgent candidacy in 2016 boiled down to this: Millions of Americans are losers — economically, culturally and even demographically. Perhaps no group needed less convincing of this proposition than white evangelical Christians, who have long felt embattled. “Make America Great Again” was the perfect slogan for Americans who had already embraced the
538 (ABC News)May 18 2021
News
Ponytails and braids: Signs of a more inclusive US military
What may seem like a superficial change in grooming standards signals a sea change in attitudes about military strength.
On a Pentagon stage earlier this year, three senior noncommissioned officers – all men – discussed the merits of changing the Army’s appearance regulations for women.
The town hall, broadcast online, turned to whether women should be allowed to wear stud
Christian Science MonitorMay 18 2015
News
Hillary Strategically Positioned to the Left in 2016 Bid
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is running as the most liberal Democratic front-runner in decades in a bid to capture the young and diverse coalition that led to President Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012, The Washington Post reported.
Clinton has positioned herself to the left on a number of issues, from gay marriage to immigration, which in the past would have put
Newsmax (News)Nov 09 2019
Opinion
How States Like Virginia Go Blue
So this is what it feels like to live in a lab experiment. As a native Virginian, I’ve watched my state come full circle. The last time Democrats enjoyed the amount of power in the Old Dominion that they won on Tuesday, I was entering middle school in Fairfax County.
In 1993 the governor was a Democrat, one of two U.S. senators was a Democrat, Democrats held seven of eleven House seats
National Review (News)Mar 29 2015
News
America’s Hinge Moment
The country is going through the most significant period of change since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Across the United States, we are seeing a convergence of economic, technological and demographic forces that is transforming every aspect of our lives. These changes are all reinforcing each other, adding to the pace and the scale of the disruption. Despite the upheaval
PoliticoJun 11 2020
Analysis
A Major Obstacle to Police Reform: The Whiteness of Their Union Bosses
The president of Minneapolis’s police union called George Floyd a “violent criminal” and those protesting his killing by a police officer a “terrorist movement.” A union chief in Baltimore once said Black Lives Matter activists were a “lynch mob”; one in Philadelphia referred to them as “a pack of rabid animals.” Another has labeled St. Louis’s democratically elected prosecutor, who is black
The Marshall ProjectApr 27 2021
News
Democrats’ surprising 2-man team to hold the Senate
One is a low-key former astronaut who preaches moderation and collaboration. The other is a progressive pastor willing to kill the filibuster to pass a landmark voting rights bill.
Mark Kelly and Raphael Warnock don’t have much in common and approach their first jobs in politics from dramatically different perspectives. But together the two Democratic senators are the bellwethers for
PoliticoJul 22 2021
Opinion
Biden’s Border Crisis Is About To Make History
If the current trend continues, this will be a record-breaking year for illegal immigration on the southwest border.
You would never know it by perusing headlines in the corporate press, but the border crisis is getting worse, not better, as the summer goes on. In fact, it might well turn out to be historic.
Late last week U.S. Customs and Border Protection finally released June
The FederalistAug 25 2020
News
Filibuster fight looms if Democrats retake Senate
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is facing competing pressure points as he weighs one of the biggest questions he’ll face if Democrats win back the majority: whether or not to nuke the filibuster.
Democrats — increasingly within striking distance of regaining the Senate — are plotting an ambitious agenda if they have control of Congress and the White House for the first
The Hill