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Jan 19 2015
News
Obama's myRA retirement accounts are now a reality
Don't have a 401(k) or pension at your job? The federal government has an option for you called myRA. President Obama announced his plans for the starter retirement savings accounts in his State of the Union address last year. The accounts will be backed by the government, charge no fees and you'll be able to contribute directly from each paycheck. "Let's do mo
CNN DigitalJun 10 2020
Analysis
America is changing, and so is the media
The media has gone through painful periods of change before. But this time is different.
In January of 1939, the Atlantic published an article entitled “I Married a Jew.” In it, the author set out “to tell the world how it really is between a Jew and a Christian, since the world is evidently so intensely interested.”
She confesses that her husband, though lovely in many respects
VoxMar 27 2020
News
Record Unemployment Claims
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Last week, the Labor Department reported that a record 3.28 million Americans filed unemployment claims.For comparison, during the Great Recession peak in March 2009, 665,000 Americans filed in a single week. Abridge NewsAug 07 2019
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McConnell faces pressure to bring Senate back for gun legislation
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is coming under intense pressure to take quick action on gun legislation in the wake of two mass shootings.
Democrats and gun control advocates want the GOP leader to bring the Senate back into session during the August recess to vote on gun-related legislation. The chamber is currently scheduled to be out of Washington until Sept. 9.
The HillDec 14 2012
News
Rice’s Blunt Style Endeared Her to President, but Not All
For President Obama, the decision to forgo the fight to make Susan E. Rice his secretary of state was a deeply painful one. It required publicly abandoning one of his most loyal aides, who had broken with the Democratic foreign policy establishment early to side with his improbable candidacy, and whose blunt-speaking style  which helped cost her the job  had always been, for Mr
New York Times (News)Sep 13 2015
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GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson: People will like me when they listen to me
Ben Carson said he is surging in the polls for the GOP presidential primaries because people have taken the time to listen to him and more people will rally to his side as the 2016 race matures.
The retired neurosurgeon has surged to the head of the pack in Iowa, where he has the support of 21 percent of likely caucus participants. That puts him behind just businessman Donald Trump, at
Washington TimesDec 18 2019
Opinion
A Country of Two Minority Parties
One reason our politics are so chaotic is that neither Democrats nor Republicans can seem to govern as a majority party. Here’s a theory for why our politics are so confusing these days: Neither party wants to be a majority party.
From an ideological perspective, majority parties are, by nature, weird. For instance, the long-dominant FDR coalition included a strange mix of blacks and
Jonah GoldbergApr 12 2015
News
GOP Attempt To Scuttle Obama's Iran Deal Faces Its Own Existential Threats Next Week
The fragile but growing congressional effort to bring oversight to ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran is at risk of unravelling, as lawmakers from both sides push for controversial additions to the bill.
On Tuesday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) will formally introduce legislation for markup that would grant Congress the final vote on any nuclear
HuffPostAug 06 2020
News
President Trump’s Comments on Mail-in Voting
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President Trump has made several recent claims that mail-in voting will threaten the integrity of the 2020 November elections. In a series of tweets last week, the president said "universal mail-in voting" would Abridge NewsApr 17 2020
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Isolated from peers, teens find new paths to community amid pandemic
The pandemic lockdown is depriving teenagers of their social groups and casting a shadow over their college and job futures. How can parents help teens cope with the isolation and uncertainty?
Isabella Flood Wallin, a sophomore in the suburbs of Seattle, misses her freedom.
She’d take a bus to school and use it to move freely around the city, going with her friends to the
Christian Science Monitor