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Nov 29 2014
News
The Democrats Shouldn’t Count on Hispanics Being the Silver Bullet for a Century of Political Success. Things Change!
President Barack Obama’s executive decision to stop enforcing certain deportation laws was a crass insult to the principle of the separation of powers embodied in the constitution. While he can make a political argument for his position on immigration he cannot defend his lawlessness.
Oh, I know about the so-called academic legal scholars who signed a letter defending his action. You
The BlazeMar 16 2015
News
Cory Booker on how America's criminal justice system destroys the American dream
On March 10, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) was among a bipartisan group of senators that introduced a historic bill that would, for the first time, force the federal government to acknowledge that marijuana has some medical value. Booker, who has become one of the leading voices for criminal justice and drug policy reform in the US Senate, is also pushing the REDEEM Act, a bill that would, among
VoxJun 21 2012
News
Campaigns Release Fundraising Numbers, But Some Big Spenders Stay Mum
From the retired librarian in Kentucky who gave President Obama's campaign $19 to the Arkansas investment banker who gave the superPAC backing GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney a half-million dollars — it's all there at the Federal Election Commission website.
The presidential candidates and the superPACs supporting them turned over hundreds of thousands of lines of detail
NPR (Online News)Oct 13 2020
Analysis
Originalism, Amy Coney Barrett’s approach to the Constitution, explained
Originalism sells itself as a way of constraining judges. But it’s more often a way of unleashing them.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin on Monday, and it’s a safe bet that we’ll hear one word over and over again over the next few days: “originalism.” Barrett is a self-proclaimed originalist, embracing a theory of the Constitution that is also shared
VoxApr 26 2020
News
COVID-19 and the (possibly) changing climate debate
“Will we learn the lessons?”
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads worldwide, that question is being heard ever more widely. Yet the potentially more critical question is what lessons we’ll learn. And on at least one key policy challenge, climate change, the terms of debate have been getting clearer and starker.
Climate change will be far from the only subject of post-pandemic policy
Christian Science MonitorApr 22 2020
News
COVID-19 and the (possibly) changing climate debate
Many climate activists see the world's community-spirited response to the coronavirus as potentially shaping a more robust response to another collective challenge: global warming.
“Will we learn the lessons?”
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads worldwide, that question is being heard ever more widely. Yet the potentially more critical question is what lessons we’ll learn. And on
Christian Science MonitorJul 16 2020
Opinion
Next Week, Democrats Can Cut the Defense Budget. Let’s See Where Their Priorities Are.
In 2007, when Democrats took control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1994, the Iraq War was at its zenith. Ending the war was the top priority for progressives.
At that time, a centrist senior Democratic aide pulled me aside and told me that my lefty friends and I were being irrational. Democrats could not push to end the war in Iraq or, in fact, take any steps to
JacobinDec 14 2019
News
Congrats Boris, R.I.P Fiscal Conservatism
Although Boris Johnson may have defused a ten-megaton bomb of neo-Marxism in Britain and assured the final passage of Brexit, his Conservative victory is hardly a victory for conservatism. On the far side of the Atlantic, as over here, fiscal responsibility has taken a lethal beating.
Reviewing a failed campaign manifesto by Starbucks titan Howard Schultz a million years ago last spring
National Review (News)Apr 11 2016
Background
Was Bill Clinton a Good President?
William Jefferson Clinton, known as Bill Clinton, served as the 42nd President of the United States from Jan. 20, 1993 to Jan. 19, 2001.
His proponents contend that under his presidency the US enjoyed the lowest unemployment and inflation rates in recent history, high home ownership, low crime rates, and a budget surplus. They give him credit for eliminating the federal deficit and
ProCon.orgJun 15 2020
News
Supreme Court grants federal job protections to gay, lesbian, transgender workers
A divided Supreme Court further advanced the cause of LGBTQ rights Monday, ruling that a landmark civil rights law barring sex discrimination in the workplace applies to gay, lesbian and transgender workers.
The decision was written by Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's first nominee to the cour. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's four
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