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Sep 22 2019
News
An exchange at an LGBTQ forum reopens questions about Joe Biden’s treatment of women
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading Democratic presidential contender, defended his record on LGBTQ issues at a forum on Friday, but in doing so, once again raised questions about his comportment towards women, and — after a misstatement in which he conflated sexual and gender identities — about his understanding of issues that affect queer and gender nonconforming voters.
VoxJun 22 2020
Opinion
We Can Find Common Ground on Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
It does not have to be all or nothing.
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling extending employment-discrimination protections to L.G.B.T. Americans — in a 6-to-3 decision, with a conservative justice writing the majority opinion and another conservative, the chief justice, joining it — was a milestone. Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia overjoyed many progressives and L.G.B.T. advocates, who
Guest Writer - LeftDec 18 2019
News
Here's What's in the 'Privileged Resolution' McCarthy Just Introduced
Impeachment day is here, and Republicans are ready to delay. As soon as the debate got started Wednesday morning, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced an adjournment resolution. It was, as you can imagine, quickly voted down.
But the Republicans were just getting started. After the failed adjournment vote, GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy introduced a privileged resolution urging his colleagues
TownhallSep 03 2014
News
Study: Alcohol causes more problems than marijuana for high school students
Teen marijuana users report fewer drug-induced problems than teen alcohol users, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
New York University researchers looked at high-school student surveys and found that alcohol, compared to marijuana, reportedly led to more unsafe driving, brought greater harm on relationships with friends and significant
VoxApr 08 2020
Analysis
Alyssa Milano Discovers Due Process
It’s one thing to adopt a poorly formed set of principles and foist them on others at every opportunity. It’s another to apply those principles unflinchingly to one’s political opponents while giving allies a free pass.
Celebrity Alyssa Milano — who is famous now mostly for having once been famous — has lately become an expert in this sort of hypocrisy, as she has cashed in her social-
National Review (News)Sep 16 2020
Opinion
The Love Triangle That Spawned Trump’s Mideast Peace Deal
Having covered Arab-Israel diplomacy for more than 40 years, I have to say that the normalization agreements signed Tuesday between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Israel and Bahrain came about in a most unusual — but incredibly revealing — fashion.
I can best explain it with a soap opera analogy: It is as if Jared Kushner was a lawyer who set out to arrange a divorce between a
Thomas L. FriedmanDec 12 2019
News
House panel battles over impeachment articles against Trump
The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer on Thursday to the impeachment of Republican President Donald Trump, as a committee considered formal charges against him that are likely to be sent to the House for a final vote next week.
The House Judiciary Committee is expected to approve two articles of impeachment later on Thursday, which will allow a vote by the Democratic-controlled
ReutersDec 11 2019
News
Trump impeachment no slam dunk for moderate Democrats
Impeaching President Trump will be an easy "yes" vote for many liberal Democrats. But vulnerable moderates face the difficult choice: oppose voters in their districts, or their own caucus.
“I’m leaning no,” Rep. Collin Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat, told the Washington Examiner. “I want to look at everything.”
Several Democrats from swing districts interviewed by the Washington
Washington ExaminerDec 09 2019
News
Nadler boils down impeachment case: 'No president should put himself before the country'
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold L. Nadler on Monday put a fine point on Democrats’ impeachment case against President Trump, arguing that the president put himself before the country.
“We surely agree that no public official, including and especially the president of the United States, should use his public office for private gain,” he said at the opening of an evidentiary
Washington TimesDec 09 2019
News
U.S. Democrat says Trump violated oath; Republicans attack impeachment probe
The head of a U.S. congressional panel leading the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump on Monday accused the Republican president of putting himself before his country and violating his oath of office.
In a statement kicking off a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives to weigh the evidence against Trump, Judiciary Committee Democratic Chairman Jerrold Nadler said there was
Reuters