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Nov 05 2014
News
Big win for conservative big money
Establishment Republican money finally got what it paid for — an electoral wave. After two cycles during which conservative megadonors’ record spending was plagued by flawed candidates and internecine squabbling, their side’s big money operatives got to do some gloating on election night.
Politico
Jul 19 2012
News
The ABCs Of Election Reform
Following the controversy-crazy U.S. presidential election of 2000, in which the Supreme Court was drafted to determine the outcome, there have been efforts by various groups to reform the country's electoral system. However, "we have no
NPR (Online News)
Nov 05 2012
News
Obama, Romney launch final blitz
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney barnstormed their way across more than a half-dozen battleground states on Sunday, making closing arguments to a closely divided American electorate before Tuesday's vote.
CNN (Online News)
Jun 01 2013
News
Rand Paul: GOP Needs To Become A 'Bigger' Party
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Friday that Republicans could appeal to a broader electorate in blue states like California by connecting with voters who have shunned the party in the past and by being big enough to agree to disagree on some issues.
HuffPost
Oct 25 2019
News
LIVE UPDATES: Hearing underway for student athlete lawsuit over playoffs
10:53 a.m. Hearing underway for student athlete lawsuit over playoffs On Thursday, the parents of 14 cross country runners at Jones College Prep filed a complaint in Cook County Circuit court against the Illinois High School Association and the Chicago Board of Education on behalf of all Chicago Public Schools athletes that have missed out on state playoffs as a result of the Chicago Teachers
Chicago Sun-Times
Mar 14 2019
News
A Beto O’Rourke Presidential Campaign Could Flip Texas
He’s the only Democrat who has come close to putting the country’s most populous red state into play in the last two decades.
Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s decision to join the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, announced Thursday, may turn out to be a dangerous development not just for President Donald Trump, but the Republican Party writ large.
O’Rourke has
HuffPost
Dec 13 2019
News
Anti-Semitism EO
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at combating anti-Semitism on college campuses. The order states, “While Title VI does not cover discrimination based on religion, individuals who face discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin do not lose protection under Title VI for also being a member of a group that shares common religious practices
The Flip Side
Oct 01 2020
News
Covid-19 vaccine alone won't defeat spread of virus, report warns
A successful vaccine for Covid-19 will not conquer the spread of the virus alone, with restrictions on daily life likely to continue for some time, a team of experts have said.
Hundreds of teams of researchers around the world are working to produce a vaccine against the coronavirus, with 11 currently in phase three human trials. The UK government has reserved access to six potential
The Guardian
Dec 17 2019
Analysis
In American Politics, Everyone’s A Cynic
Everybody is cynical and few people are changing their minds. That’s the takeaway from the House’s impeachment hearings. (Well, that and Steve Castor’s unconventional taste in briefcases.) It’s the sort of national attitude that you might suspect would inspire political apathy. If you think all politicians are crooked do-nothings, you might care less what they do.
But a half-century of
538 (ABC News)
Jun 07 2015
News
Hillary Clinton Traces Friendly Path, Troubling Party
Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be dispensing with the nationwide electoral strategy that won her husband two terms in the White House and brought white working-class voters and great stretches of what is now red-state America back to Democrats.
Instead, she is poised to retrace Barack Obama’s far narrower path to the presidency:
New York Times (News)