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Mar 07 2019
News
Democrats dismiss border officials' security pleas: 'You have no feelings, no compassion'
Smuggling cartels are poised to make $2.5 billion off trafficking in illegal immigrants this year, top border officials told Congress on Wednesday, as they pleaded with lawmakers to make the changes needed to discourage families from making the dangerous journey north.
Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said cartels are “profiting tremendously” off the
Washington TimesMar 04 2020
News
What happens to rule of law if the law keeps changing?
Interpretations of law change over time, of course. But a case before the U.S. Supreme Court highlights what can happen when politics flip-flop so wildly and quickly.
When Justice Stephen Breyer began to speak, Amy Hagstrom Miller could barely believe it.
As he continued, she began to wonder if she was in the U.S. Supreme Court at all, or if she was dreaming.
The headline
Christian Science MonitorJun 16 2020
Opinion
Why America’s Institutions Are Failing
The country’s law-enforcement and public-health systems are flunking 2020’s test.
The pandemic and the police protests, the twin crises of this horrendous year, might initially seem to have nothing to do with each other. In some ways, they are totally opposite cataclysms.
The COVID-19 outbreak, which demanded a swift and efficient response, revealed a discombobulated country
The AtlanticDec 13 2014
News
Spending Vote Offers a Glimpse of the Future Dynamic in Washington
The wrangling between the White House and Congress over a $1.1 trillion spending bill is the first test of how political forces unleashed by the midterm elections and impending 2016 campaigns will influence governing here.
The fight foreshadows two years of legislative battles defined by tensions not just between the two parties—as has been the case since the Republican takeover of the
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 01 2020
Analysis
Trump Is a Coward
Biden calls the president weak on crime, Russia, and the coronavirus. Trump proves him right.
One of Donald Trump’s biggest frauds is that he’s a strong leader. He says he’s tough on China, tough on borders, and tough on looters and anarchists. But when toughness really counts, he’s craven. He sucks up to Vladimir Putin, writes love letters to Kim Jong-un, begs Xi Jinping for help in
SlateMar 23 2016
News
With Jeb Bush’s Backing, Ted Cruz Makes Push to Stop Donald Trump
In the wake of the results of the contests in Arizona and Utah, the dual-track primaries move forward to the next big test, Wisconsin, on April 5. But in the Republican battle, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is spending time on Donald J. Trump’s turf for a second day in a row, as he tries to galvanize support in the establishment behind his candidacy.
Mr. Cruz’s day began with an
New York Times (News)Feb 28 2020
Opinion
Bernie Sanders Can Beat Trump. Here’s the Math.
Most available evidence points in the direction of a popular vote and Electoral College victory.
Whatever you think about Bernie Sanders as a potential president, it is wrong to dismiss his chances of winning the office. Not only does most of the available empirical evidence show Mr. Sanders defeating President Trump in the national popular vote and in the critical Midwestern states
New York Times (Opinion)Feb 26 2020
News
Cracks in Biden’s ‘firewall’? Black voters split in S. Carolina.
In recent primaries, black South Carolinians swung heavily for the eventual nominee. This time around, though, it’s apparent that the largest racial group in the state’s Democratic electorate is hardly a monolithic voting bloc.
Sitting on a cluster of chairs next to an abandoned softball field, Deacon James Morrison and his after-church buddies are busy sorting out the next president of
Christian Science MonitorFeb 24 2020
News
Buttigieg courts South Carolina black voters with his veteran status
Pete Buttigieg, the only veteran in the top tier of candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, is turning to South Carolina’s large military community to help shore up his nagging lack of support among black voters.
The primary on Saturday in the diverse southern state is seen as an important durability test for the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who
ReutersOct 08 2012
News
Examining gender inequalities
Urban Institute researchers examine gender inequalities, racial segregation, and the mutually reinforcing disparities they cause in education, housing, employment, income, and health care. Our experts analyze race and gender gaps in student test scores, measure unequal treatment toward minorities in the housing market, and study the persistent discrimination that feeds wealth and income gaps.
Urban Institute