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Sep 16 2019
News
Brett Kavanaugh, Susan Collins, and what Maine women think
In an increasingly polarized political environment driven by tweets and outrage, can moderates still find a place to stand? In Maine, centrist Sen. Susan Collins is finding herself on unstable ground.
Sen. Susan Collins has long seemed unbeatable.
Despite being a Republican in a state that leans slightly Democratic, she has handily won every reelection since her entry to the
Christian Science MonitorMay 20 2020
News
As Biden gives commencement address, Columbia Law faculty who opposed Kavanaugh downplay Tara Reade accusations
Columbia Law School was essentially united in opposition to Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation in 2018 -- as the university established a new, mandatory sexual misconduct education initiative, dozens of faculty members signed a petition in The New York Times saying the nominee's "temperament" alone was disqualifying, and students staged round-the-clock protests.
Now, as Joe
Fox News (Online News)Mar 27 2020
News
The other first responders: local journalists
It’s one of the paradoxes of the coronavirus crisis: Local papers are going under even as both readership and public need for solid information soar. With advertisers pulling out, can other financial models offer hope?
In the heady days of anti-Vietnam War protests, the burgeoning women’s movement, and Richard Nixon’s sweep of 49 states in his 1972 reelection, Jeff vonKaenel went home
Christian Science MonitorJan 24 2020
News
The Media's Sick Obsession With Adam Schiff
While the rest of America has likely had way too much of impeachment trial manager Rep. Adam Schiff in recent days (if they know who he is at all, that is), the mainstream media can’t get enough.
The California Democrat was “dazzling,” according to CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin:
"I thought it was dazzling. I thought the way he wove through both the facts of the case and
TownhallMay 27 2021
Analysis
Understanding China Is Getting Harder Every Month
It has never been easy to write about China, but today access is harder, and sources are more limited than they have been for decades. The pandemic hasn’t helped—since March 2020, China’s borders have been closed to most non-Chinese citizens. The result of this is that it is even harder for outsiders—and even most Chinese—to understand what is happening inside the country.
As a
Foreign PolicyMay 02 2019
News
Democrats Threaten Barr with Contempt After He No-Shows House Hearing
Attorney General William P. Barr pulled out of a Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, and he has left House lawmakers investigating the president fuming and calculating.
House Democrats, decrying what they called an erosion of American democracy, threatened on Thursday to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress after he failed to appear at a hearing
New York Times (News)Sep 14 2013
News
Syria situation further strains Obama’s relationship with the antiwar movement
Antiwar activist Nathan Ryan looked to candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign to channel his opposition to the Iraq war. But now, with Obama making a muscular case for military strikes on Syria, he is looking elsewhere.
“Like a lot of people, I was really hopeful that after eight years of the Bush administration, he represented something different, and a changing of
Washington PostMay 01 2019
News
Guaido faces test with call for 'largest march' in Venezuela history
Opposition leader Juan Guaido faced a key test of support on Wednesday after calling for the “largest march” in Venezuela’s history to try to dislodge President Nicolas Maduro, even as the military has so far resisted calls to help remove him.
Guaido on Tuesday urged the armed forces to support his effort to oust Maduro and appeared outside an air force base with dozens of National
ReutersMar 06 2024
Headline Roundup
Super Tuesday Solidifies Unpopular Biden-Trump Rematch
With Super Tuesday in the past and Nikki Haley out of the race, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are firmly set to enter a general election rematch that most Americans didn’t want.
The Details: The events of Super Tuesday all but solidified the 2024 presidential ballot and effectively began the general election cycle. On Wednesday, Trump criticized Haley and
Politico Wall Street Journal (News) Washington ExaminerJun 25 2020
Opinion
The Temptation of Kayleigh McEnany
How an ardent defender of faith—and Donald Trump—came to think of the press as her enemy
Kayleigh Mcenany marched past a graffiti-covered wall and black metal security barriers, her signature cross necklace dangling above her double-breasted navy blazer. She watched as President Donald Trump held a Bible aloft in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church. When he turned to her and pointed,
The Atlantic