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Jun 16 2020
Headline Roundup
Calls Mount for Minnesota Freedom Fund Spending Accountability
The Minnesota Freedom Fund received backlash after the organization stated Monday that it spent "well over" $200,000 bailing protestors out of jail, despite having received $35 million in donations. The Minnesota Freedom Fund later tweeted a thread explaining they had already paid “all protest-related bail that has come our way” and shared how they plan to spend the rest of their funds.
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Headline Roundup
New York Times Flip-Flops on Tom Cotton's Op-Ed
After receiving backlash for publishing an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) Wednesday, the New York Times added an editor's note to the article stating that it "fell short of our standards and should not have been published." Cotton's column advocated for the use of military force to curb nationwide protests and riots following George Floyd's death in police custody.
While some left-
New York Times (Opinion) Associated Press New York Post (News)Jul 19 2021
Perspectives Blog
Congress’s Most Famous Bipartisan Roadtrip: The Friendship of Beto O’Rourke and Will Hurd
Divisions in Washington, D.C. can seem bitter, so it can be helpful to remember more positive bipartisan experiences that began only a few years ago and continued afterward.
A two-day road trip made by two Texas congressmen from different political parties from San Antonio to Washington, D.C. in March of 2017 gained wide online popularity. Will Hurd and Beto O’Rourke drove the 1,600
Marcia BeckfordSep 10 2019
News
‘He’s Like, Okay, Well, Screw It’
Beto O’Rourke last week stopped here for beers. He wasn’t hunting big-dollar donors or votes in a state with a meaningful primary. He instead wanted to stand on a box in the middle of a pub and just let it rip. So that’s what he did. The crowd was young, diverse and notably not reaching to write checks, but they were plenty ready to hear his profane riff on his proposed gun buybacks. He downed
PoliticoAug 12 2021
Headline Roundup
Census Bureau to Release 2020 Data That Will Guide Redistricting
On Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau released data from the 2020 Census that will guide redistricting. The results, which are being released late due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be used by states to redraw district lines for the U.S. House of Representatives based on where residents live. Democrats will control redistricting for 75 U.S. House seats in eight states; Republicans control
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Opinion
Ideological Discrimination in Academia Is More Complicated than You Think
Faculty feel less threatened by the opinions of undergraduates than by those of Ph.D. students and their peers.
Many right-of-center students (especially those who are grade-obsessed) self-censor, fearing that their professors will punish them for their political and cultural views if they were to express them in class discussions or assignments.
It’s easy to understand why they
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Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro is a conservative political columnist and commentator, author, talk show host, syndicated columnist, and attorney. He as born in 1984 and went to UCLA at just 16 years old. Shapiro graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science in 2004, and then graduated from Harvard Law School cum laude in 2007.
May 12 2021
Perspectives Blog
More than Memorization: A New Civics Education Vision May Reduce Polarization
In the United States today, politics seems to be less about governing and more about finding the best way to demean the other side. The result: a partisan divide and an epidemic of affective polarization. Affective polarization is defined as “the extent to which citizens feel more negatively toward other political parties than toward their own.” Increasingly, Americans harbor more negative
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Oct 28 2019
News
Everything you need to know about the controversial rise and fall of Katie Hill
After she won reelection last year as part of a historic, female-driven wave for House Democrats, the party picked Rep. Katie Hill (Calif.) to be one of its faces of success.
She is young (32), diverse (one of the first openly bisexual members of Congress), politically astute (her first time running for office was for this seat) and from the kind of district that helped the Democrats
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