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Aug 03 2017
News
A Vatican Shot Across the Bow for Hard-Line U.S. Catholics
Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican’s good graces.
New York Times (News)
Jan 15 2017
News
Immigrant-Rights Rallies Held in 50 U.S. Cities
Immigrants and their supporters held rallies in 50 cities across the country Saturday in the first large-scale mobilization of immigrant-rights forces since the election of Donald Trump.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Mar 27 2020
Opinion
The Coronavirus Is Demonstrating the Value of Globalization
We are experiencing a painful introduction to anti-globalism and its consequences.
To fight a pandemic, governments are erecting barriers to the movement of people and goods unlike anything seen since the end of World War II. In some ways, the new barriers are even tighter. America’s borders with Canada and Mexico remained open during the war, but they are closed now.
These
The Atlantic
Apr 05 2021
News
Time back home with voters only emboldens Republicans to oppose Biden’s agenda
A lifelong railroad aficionado, 74-year-old retiree Tony Benz has volunteered for nearly two decades helping passengers at the Amtrak station in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Mo.
He believes the federal government has a role in funding infrastructure, and outside the station last week, Benz listed reasons the government should subsidize train travel.
That, however, doesn’t
Washington Post
Jun 01 2017
News
Warren turns her fire on DeVos
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is setting her sights on Betsy DeVos, the wealthy Republican donor who has become a lightning rod for the liberal grassroots as President Trump’s secretary of Education.
The Hill
Apr 29 2017
News
John Kasich raises 'taking out' top North Korean leaders
The 2016 presidential candidate's views, shared Friday at a Monitor breakfast, come amid an escalation of rhetoric vis-a-vis North Korea, both from the Trump administration and Republican congressmen.
Christian Science Monitor
Jul 02 2017
News
The White House is playing a game of chicken with the media
It seems clear, at this point, that the White House would prefer not to hold regular press briefings. But President Trump and his aides do not want to be the ones to pull the plug. They want journalists to do it.
Washington Post
Feb 04 2018
News
Madeleine Albright Would Give Devin Nunes An ‘F’ For Memo Stunt
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright delivered a scathing hit-and-run Twitter attack on Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) for the House Intelligence Committee memo he orchestrated slamming the FBI investigation of a one-time member of President Donald Trump’s campaign.
HuffPost
Aug 26 2019
News
A place to go: How democracy can save itself
At summer's end, families buy school supplies and young people hit the town on warm nights. On just such a weekend, the nation was again shattered by mass shootings: this time in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso. The media coverage, complete with pundits debating gun regulations and mental illness, kicked in immediately. Even President Trump said a few healing words.
What was missing was the
The Fulcrum
Jul 20 2020
Analysis
The End of the Filibuster—No, Really
Through the mid-20th century, southern segregationists relied on the Senate filibuster as their ultimate legislative weapon to block equal rights for Black Americans. Now the renewed struggle over those rights may doom the filibuster itself, perhaps as soon as next year.
With Donald Trump struggling in the polls, Democrats now are eagerly contemplating the possibility that the November
The Atlantic