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Oct 13 2013
News
Obama: Time to end ‘pain of this Republican shutdown’ and raise debt limit
As negotiators work over the weekend to resolve Washington’s budget and debt deadlocks, President Obama said Saturday that he’s hopeful to end “the pain of this Republican shutdown” soon. In his weekly address, Mr. Obama said it was a “positive development” that House Republicans have offered to raise the nation’s borrowing limit for six weeks.
Washington TimesMay 15 2020
News
Most states still fall short of recommended testing levels
As businesses reopened Friday in more of the U.S., an overwhelming majority of states still fall short of the COVID-19 testing levels that public health experts say are necessary to safely ease lockdowns and avoid another deadly wave of outbreaks, according to an Associated Press analysis.
Rapid, widespread testing is considered essential to tracking and containing the coronavirus. But
Associated PressAug 26 2020
Analysis
A loyalty test for the GOP, a reality test for the country
The Republican Party has become a personality cult.
In the era of President Donald Trump, the news develops the quality “of being shocking without being surprising,” wrote Masha Gessen in Surviving Autocracy. Each week’s events are “an assault on the senses and the mental faculties,” and yet, somehow, “just more of the same.”
That’s how I felt watching the first night of the
VoxMar 02 2022
Perspectives Blog
Should NATO be Reformed, and What Role Can the US Play?
This blog is written by multiple authors of different perspectives, and published on DividedWeFall.org (Mixed media bias rating).
Argument 1: Europe’s Defense Against Russia is, and Should Remain, NATO’s Core MissionBy Steven Pifer – Research Fellow, Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
In 1991, some 50 years
Divided We Fall (author)Mar 06 2020
News
Coronavirus fears reverberate as cases pass 100,000; U.S. officials widen states of emergency
The knock-on effects of the coronavirus ricocheted around the globe Friday, with cases surpassing 100,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Developments unfolded rapidly despite global efforts to check the outbreak’s advance. A French lawmaker tested positive; the Vatican reported its first case; the Netherlands recorded its first fatality; a rabbi was infected in New
Washington PostMay 11 2020
News
For Some “Facebook Empathy Moms,” Joe Biden Is Just Another Compromise
In the Before Times, Jody Kanikula and a half dozen fellow Democratic women activists would gather for drinks each Thursday after the weekly Kane County Democrats meeting in Geneva, Illinois. These days, they settle for Saturday morning Zoom calls to reimagine what their political organizing looks like now that their preferred tools of the trade—door knocking and mail drops—are off the table
Mother JonesOct 04 2012
Opinion
Energy and Environment Policy in the 2012 Election
America needs an energy policy that promotes economic development, but many Members of Congress and the Administration are promoting policies and promulgating regulations that centralize power in Washingtonâ€â€an approach that leads to the high prices, technological stagnation, energy shortages, and dependence on foreign sources that politicians use to justify their failed big-government
The Heritage FoundationOct 04 2012
Opinion
Energy and Environment Policy in the 2012 Election
America needs an energy policy that promotes economic development, but many Members of Congress and the Administration are promoting policies and promulgating regulations that centralize power in Washingtonâ€â€an approach that leads to the high prices, technological stagnation, energy shortages, and dependence on foreign sources that politicians use to justify their failed big-government
The Heritage FoundationSep 09 2013
News
Obama: 'Breakthrough' is possible on Syria
Russia's proposal for Syria to surrender its chemical weapons to international control was a "potentially positive development," but could be a stall tactic, President Barack Obama told CNN on Monday. "We're going to run this to ground," Obama said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, adding that the United States will work with Syrian ally Russia and the intern
CNN DigitalJul 08 2019
News
Top Dems who could win presidential nomination
The first debates are done, second-quarter fundraising totals are rolling in and the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination is intensifying.
Here are The Hill’s latest rankings of the top contenders.
1. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Warren is not leading in any national polls — yet. But she is on the rise and her message on the stump is resonating louder than
The Hill