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Jun 12 2020
News
The City that Really Did Abolish the Police
And rebuilt the department from the ground up. The strange, hopeful, politically complicated story of Camden, N.J.
It was the moment that America needed.
Days after George Floyd died at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, a different scene was playing out in what was once the most dangerous city in the United States.
Joseph D. Wysocki was marching in the streets
PoliticoApr 02 2015
News
White House: Obama Finds Religious Freedom Laws ‘Unthinkable’
President Barack Obama finds Indiana’s religious freedom law and others like it “unthinkable,” the White House said Wednesday.
“I do think in the mind of the president, the thought that we would have state legislatures in the 21st century in the United States of America passing laws that would use religion to try to justify discriminating against people for who they love is unthinkable
The BlazeApr 16 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Trump, Governors Start to Plan Regional Re-openings
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President Donald Trump's administration and state governors are developing plans to ease social distancing guidelines once conditions are deemed safe enough.
The rough plan aims to lift some social distancing guidelines after May 1, with harder-hit areas waiting longer. The final decision will ultimately
Henry A. BrechterOct 05 2019
Opinion
Tucker And Patel: The Truth About Impeachment
Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden. Some Republicans are trying, but there’s no way to spin this as a good idea. Like a lot of things Trump does, it was pretty over-the-top. Our leaders’ official actions should not be about politics. Those two things need to remain separate.
Tucker CarlsonAug 31 2016
News
The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
While growing income inequality is a real phenomenon, a misdiagnosis of its causes and consequences leads to policies that slow growth and ultimately weaken America. Ignoring the true sources of rising inequality — namely trade, trade deficits, and immigration in an economy constrained by properly trained talent and its capacity to take entrepreneurial risk — and blaming high-wage earners
American Enterprise InstituteJul 08 2020
Perspectives Blog
AllStances™: How should we handle controversial statues in public areas?
Tear them down and destroy them These statues glorify racism and hate. We must tear them down now to have our voices heard and to drive change. See arguments » Tear them down and put them in museums These statues glorify racism and hate. We must take them down, and put them in museums to warn against the evils of the past. See arguments » Discuss and Julie MastrineOct 27 2013
News
Rice Offers a More Modest Strategy for Mideast
Each Saturday morning in July and August, Susan E. Rice, President Obama’s new national security adviser, gathered half a dozen aides in her corner office in the White House to plot America’s future in the Middle East. The policy review, a kind of midcourse correction, has set the United States on a new heading in the world’s most turbulent region.
New York Times (News)Aug 30 2016
News
Data shows increasing political polarization on climate change
The article details the escalation of partisan polarization, particularly towards environmental protection and climate change, over the past few decades in America. After documenting the growing partisan gap in support for environmental legislation in the U.S. Congress, it presents data from The Gallup Organization that shows an increasing gap between self-identified Republicans' and Democrats
Science DailyNov 03 2020
Analysis
On Election Day, Democrats Are Haunted by the Ghosts of Al Gore and Hillary Clinton
The visitor looked to his left as he stepped onto Fifth Avenue but forgot that in America traffic flows the opposite direction than in his native England. He never saw the car coming.
“I do not understand why,” Winston Churchill later said of being hit by a car that night in New York City in December 1931, “I was not broken like an eggshell or squashed like a gooseberry.”
After a
PoliticoFeb 05 2021
Analysis
The Knives Come Out for Josh Hawley
The elite conservative world saw the Missouri senator as America’s next great statesman. Instead, he’s revealed uncomfortable truths about the movement.
Since josh hawley was a young man, powerful people have told him he was special. His teachers gave him the “Special R” award, just one feather in the Rockhurst High School valedictorian’s cap of outstandingness. Hawley’s mentor at
The Atlantic