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Jun 30 2021
News
Trump audit excitement meets with fear from election officials
A monthslong examination of all the ballots from the 2020 election in Arizona’s most populous county may be winding down soon. But now the state is spreading the “audit” playbook across the country.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump — fueled by Trump’s false claim that he did not lose the 2020 election — are behind a new push to review the results in states including Michigan
Politico
May 25 2021
News
A year since George Floyd’s murder, Americans reflect on his legacy
Americans on Tuesday will mark the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd beneath a white Minneapolis police officer’s knee, which catalyzed the largest U.S. protest movement in decades over police brutality against Black people.
In Washington, President Joe Biden will meet privately with members of Floyd's family at the White House, not far from where promised police reform
Reuters
Jan 20 2021
News
Election conspiracy theories: Why they spread, and how to curb them
In our latest "Rethinking the News" podcast, we ask: What fears, values, and attitudes make election conspiracy theories so persistent? Part 2 of 2.
The narrative that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election was false yet powerful. It is now tied to threats against election-related workers, to deaths in riots at the U.S. Capitol, and to the need for heightened security around the
Christian Science Monitor
May 03 2021
News
On the Supreme Court docket: Fairness, textualism, and crack cocaine
The sentencing rule treating crack cocaine as 100 times worse than powder is seen by bipartisan critics as a punitive remnant of the war on drugs. The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a case that could deliver a telling blow – or a telling victory – for reform.
It was 2008, and coming off his second run-in with the law, Tarahrick Terry wanted to make some money.
A week shy of
Christian Science Monitor
Oct 19 2020
Analysis
Why the US election could decide battle against climate change
Who occupies the White House for the next four years could play a critical role in the fight against dangerous climate change, experts say. Matt McGrath weighs the likely environmental consequences of the US election.
Scientists studying climate change say that the re-election of Donald Trump could make it "impossible" to keep global temperatures in check.
They're worried another
BBC News
Jul 11 2020
Opinion
Charlie Kirk: Mail-in voting push is Democratic power grab
In their cynical attempt to rewrite the rules of the 2020 election, Democrats are ignoring distinctions between absentee ballots and universal mail-in voting.
In California, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to use an executive order to send mail-in ballots to every voter in his state — ballots that can then be picked up and delivered to election authorities by partisan activists
Charlie Kirk
Oct 02 2020
Analysis
The President Tests Positive for the Coronavirus, and a Nation Anticipates Chaos
President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have tested positive for the coronavirus, an announcement which is bound to throw the Presidential race into a state of grave uncertainty, if not chaos. The novel coronavirus pandemic has killed more than two hundred thousand Americans and more than a million people worldwide. On Friday morning, at 12:54 a.m. Eastern time, Trump tweeted, “Tonight
The New Yorker
Mar 09 2021
Opinion
The stimulus bill's Child Tax Credit expansion is exactly the pandemic relief parents need
When big legislation makes its way through Congress, peeling back the layers usually reveals the rot inside. Once they're brought into the light, we see why provisions were slipped into a bigger package. But that doesn't seem to be the case with the Covid-19 stimulus bill, which is set to pass the House on its way to President Joe Biden's desk on Wednesday. Instead, if you examine the $1.9
MSNBC
May 05 2020
News
Stacey Abrams’s Remarkable Campaign for Vice President
Stacey Abrams has a theory about how Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump: Pick her as his running mate.
“We have to win the election. And I would point out that I ran the most successful campaign to engage the communities we need to build the broadest coalition necessary in 2020, because what we are going to see on the ground is that this is going to be a campaign unlike anything that’s
The Atlantic
Aug 31 2020
News
Wisconsin governor urges Trump not to visit Kenosha: 'I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing'
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) urged President Trump on Sunday to "reconsider" his plans to visit Kenosha, Wis., which has been rocked by unrest for the past several nights following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police.
In a letter to the White House shared by Evers's office Sunday afternoon, the governor warned that Trump's presence could "hinder" the state's attempts to heal after a
The Hill