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Sep 11 2019
News
Biden camp thinks the media just doesn’t get it
The vice president’s allies say neither detractors in the media, nor his rivals on the stump, understand the root of his appeal.
The first thing you notice at a Joe Biden event is the age: Many of the reporters covering him are really young. Biden is not. The press corps, or so the Biden campaign sees it, is culturally liberal and highly attuned to modern issues around race and gender
PoliticoOct 17 2020
Analysis
It’s the world according to Trump: Could Biden turn back the clock?
When former Vice President Joe Biden used the first presidential debate to tout his plan for a $20 billion international fund to encourage Brazil to preserve its endangered rainforests, it was a shoutout to a bygone era of robust, American-led multilateralism.
But when Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro lost no time in condemning Mr. Biden’s idea as an arrogant stab at national
Christian Science MonitorMay 17 2013
News
IRS draws bipartisan fire at hearing
The scandal at the Internal Revenue Service goes far beyond the treatment of Tea Party groups and includes larger issues of abuse of power, the chairman of the House's chief tax-writing committee said at an oversight hearing Friday morning.
"With all due respect, this systematic abuse cannot be fixed with just one resignation, or two," said Rep. Dave Camp, R. Mich., who chairs the House
USA TODAYSep 13 2015
News
Gloomy Republican Campaigns Leave Behind Reagan Cheer
To listen to the way some Republicans tell it, America is a pretty awful place these days.
“A hell hole,” as Donald J. Trump has put it. Our leaders are “babies” who are “so stupid” they can only watch helplessly as we become “a third-world country.”
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas sees evil menacing America not just from within, like the “tyranny” and “lawlessness” of jailing a county
New York Times (News)May 16 2013
News
Handling of terrorists in witness protection questioned
An internal Justice Department report found that new identities created for known or suspected terrorists admitted to the government secret Witness Security Program were not submitted for inclusion on terrorist watchlists.
Until the matter was recently brought to the attention of senior Justice officials by the department's inspector general, "it was possible for known or suspected
USA TODAYFeb 02 2015
News
The FCC chair's Internet pivot
Tom Wheeler was feeling the heat. It was August and the head of the Federal Communications Commission was sitting on the deck of his family’s vacation home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Sweat dripped onto the paperwork before him. For months, the tall, bespectacled Wheeler had been consumed by an arcane but important debate over how to regulate the companies that provide access to the Internet
PoliticoJun 19 2019
News
Basking in Obama's 'afterglow' could burn Biden: 'We cannot return to the past'
Democratic presidential hopefuls have been reluctant to attack Joseph R. Biden over his eight years with President Barack Obama, but voters in early primary states say it’s an opportunity for anyone brave enough to challenge the Obama orthodoxy.
While the Democratic base still harbors enormous goodwill toward the country’s first black president, some early state voters say Mr. Obama
Washington TimesSep 17 2014
News
Health Law's Election Impact Is Dimming
Though Republicans continue to hammer away at the Affordable Care Act, the health-insurance law is losing some of its punch in the 2014 campaign.
Polls show that voters don't see the law as a top concern, and both Democrats and Republicans say the election will turn on a range of issues.
That outlook is causing both parties to adjust. While some Republicans had billed the
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 15 2014
News
Why the Scottish Vote Is Shaking Up Europe
Independence seems to be the must-have political accessory of 2014. Pro-Russian separatists and Kyiv loyalists scorch the land amid bloody battles for control of eastern Ukraine, the so-called Islamic State continues to metastasize across Iraq and Syria, and both Israelis and Palestinians sift through the rubble after yet another orgy of death and destruction fought in the name of aspirant
PoliticoSep 27 2012
Opinion
Five Obamacare Myths
ON the subject of the Affordable Care Act  Obamacare, to reclaim the name critics have made into a slur  a number of fallacies seem to be congealing into accepted wisdom. Much of this is the result of unrelenting Republican propaganda and right-wing punditry, but it has gone largely unchallenged by gun-shy Democrats. The result is that voters are confronted with slogans and
New York Times (News)