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Mar 02 2021
Analysis
How Congress Could Send Bigger Stimulus Checks, Fund School Reopening, and Save $1 Trillion
Rep. Peter Meijer has a plan to provide bigger stimulus checks to needy Americans while cutting extraneous elements from the Biden relief bill.
President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill took its first major step toward passage over the weekend. But political circumstances and the current state of the pandemic suggest that Congress ought to reconsider this approach.
Reason
Jul 24 2020
News
'The first step': Yankees, Nationals players all kneel before national anthem in MLB opener
WASHINGTON — Though it was the novel coronavirus that delayed Major League Baseball’s Opening Day by nearly four months, the social reckoning that occurred along the way could not be ignored before it was time to play ball.
In a coordinated gesture between the reigning World Series champion Washington Nationals and New York Yankees before the first major league game played this year
USA TODAY
Oct 11 2019
Opinion
The Banality of Insurgency
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez burst into Congress, a twenty-nine-year-old bartender and socialist defeating a fifty-seven-year-old white male, beneficiary of longtime voter quiescence, a narrative was born: insurgency!
And she wasn’t the only one that year. That same year, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar also joined Congress. In New York State and around the country, young challengers (
Jacobin
Oct 23 2020
Data
Only 24% of Trump supporters view the coronavirus outbreak as a ‘very important’ voting issue
Voters in the United States continue to rate the economy, health care and Supreme Court appointments as very important voting issues. But less than two weeks before Election Day, those who support Donald Trump and Joe Biden differ widely on the importance of several issues – and the gap over the importance of the coronavirus outbreak has widened considerably since August.
About three-
Pew Research Center
Sep 17 2020
News
Trump says he will sign executive order on "patriotic education" in rebuke of 1619 project
President Trump said he would sign an executive order on Thursday to "promote patriotic education" through an effort called the 1776 Commission, while denouncing a New York Times' project that investigated the impacts of racial injustice for Black Americans.
The big picture: The 1619 project dug into the personal histories of Black Americans in the U.S. who have faced present-day
Axios
Mar 02 2021
Opinion
Big Tech companies thrive because consumers can't quit them
Big Tech's dominance within the social, political, and economic spheres of life is not going unnoticed; reining it in has become a bipartisan aim, even if for competing reasons.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that Facebook and Twitter are censorious. Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota suggests that they are not censorious enough. In any case, both think Congress
Washington Examiner
Aug 05 2020
Analysis
Sally Yates, Under Attack by Republicans, Defends Flynn Investigation
The former deputy attorney general Sally Q. Yates on Wednesday adamantly defended the Justice Department’s investigation of Michael T. Flynn, clashing with Senate Republicans who accused her of being part of a politically motivated ploy by the Obama administration to frame President Trump’s former national security adviser.
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ms. Yates
New York Times (News)
Feb 05 2020
News
What to watch for and everything to know as Biden, Warren, Yang and Steyer face off in CNN town hall
Four Democratic candidates will take the stage in New Hampshire on Wednesday to make a final pitch to voters ahead of the state's primary contest next week.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang and billionaire Tom Steyer will participate in back-to-back town hall events hosted by CNN.
The cable news network will
Newsweek
Aug 05 2020
News
Trump encourages mail voting in key battleground Florida
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an abrupt reversal, President Donald Trump now is encouraging voters in the critical swing state of Florida to vote by mail after months of criticizing the practice, and only days after threatening to sue Nevada over a new vote-by-mail law.
His encouragement follows a surge in Democratic requests to vote for mail in Florida, a state that Trump almost certainly must
Associated Press
Aug 05 2020
Background
What the Constitution Really Says About Race and Slavery
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the 13th Amendment officially was ratified, and with it, slavery finally was abolished in America. The New York World hailed it as “one of the most important reforms ever accomplished by voluntary human agency.”
The newspaper said the amendment “takes out of politics, and consigns to history, an institution incongruous to our political system
The Heritage Foundation