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Apr 14 2015
News
Immigration debacle dogs Marco Rubio
The calls started coming from Republican Party honchos and prominent GOP senators right after Election 2012: The party had to start competing better for the Latino vote, and immigration reform was the place to start. Sen. Marco Rubio’s political advisers weren’t so sure. As a pair of deal-making Republicans deeply disliked by elements of the GOP base — Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham —
PoliticoMay 16 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Trump's wealth in the spotlight with new disclosure forms
America is about to get a tantalizing look into the hidden fortune on which Donald Trump made his name but is at the root of some of the most mysterious unresolved questions about his presidency.
The expected release of the President's latest financial disclosure forms on Thursday will trigger a now annual controversy about Trump's wealth, including the question of whether he is adding
Guest Writer - LeftMay 16 2019
News
Trade War With China
“China said on Monday it would impose higher tariffs on most U.S. imports on a revised $60 billion target list, hitting back at a tariff hike by Washington on $200 billion of Chinese goods in a further escalation of a bitter trade war.” (Reuters)
The left criticizes Trump’s tactics and is pessimistic about a favorable resolution.
“To make the case for his trade war, and to
The Flip SideOct 21 2013
News
Budget Discord Simmers Among Democrats
Cracks are showing in the Democratic coalition as the next round of budget talks gets under way, hurting the chances for progress toward a broad deal that changes the tax code and significantly narrows future deficits.
While Republicans are still smarting over nasty infighting they engaged in during the debt-ceiling fight and 16-day government shutdown, Democrats have stayed united.
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 25 2020
News
The Harvey Weinstein Conviction
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
In early October 2017, widespread sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein, who was a famous Hollywood producer at the time, helped to launch the viral #MeToo movement.On Monday, in a landmark trial, the Abridge NewsOct 02 2019
News
Impeachment, Brexit, and the battle to define democracy
In two leading democracies, citizens’ visions of core principles of government have diverged sharply. That’s undermining confidence, and helping to feed nationalism and populism.
“This is what democracy looks like!” Those six simple words have emerged as the rallying call for countless political protests worldwide in the past few years.
But if you put a question mark at the end,
Christian Science MonitorMay 14 2019
News
An Unending Trade War Leaves Wall Street Jittery
Investors are dealing with a painful new reality: The trade war between the United States and China could last indefinitely.
That anxiety spread across the stock markets on Monday, as investors around the world tried to divine the potential fallout to economic growth and corporate profits. Bonds and commodities, too, flashed warnings of a slowdown.
The stock losses have brought
New York Times (News)Mar 31 2020
News
Party of the Working Man? Pelosi Proposes Something That Will Give Millionaires Billions in Benefits
With the Wuhan coronavirus reaping havoc to the U.S. economy, the Trump White House put together a $2 trillion relief package that was needlessly derailed by politics, thanks to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. You remember the theatrics. Senate Democrats and Republicans had a bipartisan package after working through the week and weekend. On March 21, it was pretty
TownhallMay 13 2019
News
Frustration, Miscalculation: Inside the U.S.-China Trade Impasse
The U.S. and Chinese governments both sent signals ahead of their trade talks in Washington last week that a pact was so near they would discuss the logistics of a signing ceremony.
In a matter of days, the dynamic shifted so markedly that the Chinese deliberated whether to even show up after President Trump ordered a last-minute increase in tariffs on Chinese imports because the U.S.
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 01 2019
Opinion
In Today's America, Everybody Who Disagrees with You is a Traitor
Throwing the word "treason" around, unmoored from its actual meaning, is a weapon for delegitimizing political opposition and dissent.
With a little over a year to go before the next presidential election, politicians, pundits, and political players have grown comfortable yelling "treason" in each other's faces. That's a problem. Except in those rare circumstances when the charge is
Reason