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Sep 03 2016
News
Confessions of a Clinton reporter: The media's 5 unspoken rules for covering Hillary
The reporter's job is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" — a credo that, humorously, was originally written as a smear of the self-righteous nature of journalists. And so the justification for going after a public figure increases in proportion to his or her stature. The bigger the figure, the looser the restraints.
Vox
Apr 15 2015
News
Tax Calculator: The federal debt
The federal government must make regular interest payments on the money it has borrowed to finance past deficits – that is, on the national debt held by the public.
Fox News (Online News)
Sep 11 2020
News
Oscars Diversity Requirements
“The body that hands out the Academy Awards on Tuesday published detailed inclusion and diversity guidelines that filmmakers will have to meet… movies that want to be considered eligible for a best picture nomination at the 2024 Oscars will have to meet two of the four new standards, the Academy said. The four standards cover diversity representation among actors and subject matter [Standard A
The Flip Side
Jan 31 2020
News
Dow Drops 500 Points on Global Growth Concerns
Fresh economic data and the viral outbreak in China fanned worries about global growth, weighing on stocks around the world to end the week.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 521 points, or 1.8%. The S&P 500 slipped 1.6% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 1.4%.
The World Health Organization on Thursday declared the coronavirus—which has now sickened more than 9,
Wall Street Journal (News)
Nov 04 2014
News
Democratic Doomsday?
Public campaigning gave way to the privacy of the voting booth Tuesday with control of the Senate, the makeup of the House and three dozen governorships at stake.
HuffPost
Aug 19 2014
News
Behind Closed Doors, Obama Crafts Executive Actions
When President Obama announced in June that he planned to bypass congressional gridlock and overhaul the nation’s immigration system on his own, he did so in a most public way: a speech in the White House Rose Garden.
Since then, the process of drafting what will likely be the only significant immigration changes of his presidency — and his most consequential use of executive power —
New York Times (News)
Jan 30 2020
Analysis
Republican theory for Trump acquittal could unleash unrestrained presidential power
CNN)Impeachment was meant to punish Donald Trump's unrestrained use of his authority, but the grounds on which Republican senators plan to acquit him may instead give him a green light to use his power however he wants to win reelection.
Trump's GOP defenders looking to end his Senate trial in the next few days are increasingly arguing that it's time to shut things down because even if
CNN (Online News)
Dec 20 2013
News
Exposing the education reformers big lie: Here's how progressives and our kids beat the corporate establishment
A populist uprising is coming in defense of public schools. Are Democrats on the side of Wall Street or the people?
Salon
Aug 21 2019
Opinion
Courage Is the Cure for Political Correctness
Resist the temptation to censor yourself and speak up for your views. No one said the fight against intolerance would be easy.
This might come as some surprise to observers of our campus culture wars, but there was a time, not long ago, when the situation in American higher education was much worse. There a wave of vicious campus activism aimed at silencing heterodox speakers, and it
Guest Writer - Right
May 06 2020
News
Senate Republicans Return to Judicial Nominees Amid Coronavirus
Hearing for key appeals court vacancy is part of McConnell’s continued push to fill judiciary with conservatives.
Senate Republicans, with their return to the Capitol this week, are turning some of their attention back to a top pre-coronavirus priority: placing as many conservatives as possible on the nation’s federal courts.
A featured player in the current push is Judge Justin
Wall Street Journal (News)