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Sep 30 2019
News
Trump’s Buddy Chris Collins Just Resigned From Congress
Hours after reports emerged that Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) was expected to plead guilty to insider trading charges, the Daily Beast broke the news that Collins had resigned his seat on Monday. Several other outlets, including the Washington Post, confirmed that the four-term congressman had stepped down.
Collins’ departure from the House marks an inglorious end to his congressional
Mother JonesApr 07 2016
News
Sanders ticks off ways Clinton not ‘qualified’ to be president
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Wednesday said that he does not believe Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president based on her acceptance of special-interest money, her support of free trade and her vote for the Iraq War.
Washington PostJul 06 2017
News
Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage is Hurting the Workers It's Intending to Help
Three years ago, the city of Seattle voted to gradually raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour in the name of human decency and basic fairness. Several cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have done the same thing. Critics argue that boosting wages by bureaucratic diktat leads to fewer hours and jobs for low-income and low-skilled workers.
ReasonOct 19 2020
Analysis
Nancy Pelosi sets a deadline this week for getting a stimulus deal before the election
Pelosi is still negotiating with the White House while Senate Republicans push their own stimulus bill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday set a tight timeline for getting a new stimulus deal done before the election: about 48 hours.
During an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Pelosi suggested there likely won’t be time to pass a new package before November 3 if
VoxSep 28 2019
Opinion
A Difficult Time to Be a Republican
Publicly predicting Donald Trump’s impeachment started for me on April 5, 2018. That’s when I wrote: “Trump 2020 could be the first presidential reelection campaign to fight impeachment.” In a piece headlined “Trump 2020 Campaign Forecast: 99 Percent Chance of Thunder and Lightning," it was my No. 3 reason for the anticipated turmoil:
"Conceivably, President Trump could concurrently
Guest Writer - RightAug 24 2016
Opinion
OPINOIN: Why Donald Trump’s Election Observers Are a Bad Idea
When Donald J. Trump’s campaign recently began to enroll “election observers” to monitor the vote this November, the news media reacted with shocked surprise. Politico called the move “unprecedented in a presidential election,” and others predicted that it could lead to voter intimidation, or worse, at the polls.
Guest Writer - LeftJan 29 2020
News
Trump Middle East plan: Palestinians reject 'conspiracy'
Palestinians have dismissed US President Donald Trump's new Middle East peace plan as a "conspiracy".
The plan envisages a Palestinian state and the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over West Bank settlements.
Mr Trump said Jerusalem would remain Israel's "undivided" capital, but the Palestinian capital would "include areas of East Jerusalem".
Reacting to Tuesday's
BBC NewsApr 04 2019
News
Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you?
Everyone reading this sentence likely (hopefully!) agrees that women deserve the same rights as men. But just a couple of centuries ago, that idea would’ve been dismissed as absurd.
The same is true for the belief that black people should have the same rights as white people. Commonly accepted now; unthinkable a couple of centuries ago.
There’s a concept from philosophy that
VoxDec 23 2019
Opinion
The substance of Trump's 2020 campaign
Donald Trump is the first president in American history to run for re-election after having been impeached. We should expect his second presidential campaign to be as singular as everything else in his still-astonishing political career has been.
There is another sense, however, in which his second campaign looks very familiar. Externally speaking, Trump is an ordinary incumbent
The Week - News