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Dec 16 2014
News
Breaking: Jeb Bush Announces He Will "Actively Explore" Running For President
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will "actively explore" running for President in 2016, according to announcements that he posted on his Facebook and Twitter accounts on Tuesday.
Bush began his announcement talking about spending the holidays with his family. He said that he had been having conversations with them "about the future of this nation," and because of these conversations and
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May 31 2015
News
Kirsten Gillibrand — a better bet than Hillary?
Let's assume for the moment that becoming the next U.S. president is just not in the cards for Hillary Clinton. Who would you put your money on to become America's first female commander in chief? An outspoken progressive like Elizabeth Warren? A former CEO like the recently declared Carly Fiorina? And then there's one other woman, one with a resume similar to Clinton's — Democrat, lawyer,
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Mar 02 2016
Opinion
Depoliticizing abortion
We have a political polarization problem in America today. People’s party affiliations often leave little wiggle room for issue stances. There are certain expectations for party affiliates. These expectations essentially act as restrictions on the ideas party members can have. Certainly there are Republicans and Democrats who fail to meet the expectations of their party on some issues. However
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Oct 17 2013
News
Obama Calls For Budget, Immigration Reform By Year's End
President Obama slammed the partisan standoff "spectacle" that he said had damaged the economy and America's international credibility, and called on Congress to pass a comprehensive budget, immigration reform and a farm bill by year's end.
He praised "Democrats and responsible Republicans who came together" to pass a last-minute deal to reverse a partial government shutdown and
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Dec 25 2019
Opinion
The Vaping-Marijuana Nexus
Another unintended consequence of celebrating pot use.
A surge in vaping related lung illnesses this year caught the medical community by surprise, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting more than 2,500 lung illnesses and 54 deaths. Politicians are targeting e-cigarettes, but the CDC reported last week that marijuana is so far the greatest common denominator
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Apr 25 2019
News
The Joe Biden culture war
There’s a split among Democrats on #MeToo and more. Biden might have picked the losing side.
Joe Biden is betting on the past.
The former vice president, who formally announced his candidacy on Thursday but has been a frontrunner in the polls for months, recently called himself an “Obama-Biden Democrat,” evoking a repeat of 2008. His supporters have long held that he can connect
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Apr 25 2019
News
Biden brings broad appeal in battle for 2020 – but don't expect a revolution
The former vice-president says he’s a proud ‘Obama-Biden Democrat’ yet questions over his leftwing credentials remain
Standing before a gathering of Democrats in his home state of Delaware last month, Joe Biden struck a defiant tone in the face of questions over his liberal credentials.
“I’m told I get criticized by the ‘new left’,” Biden told the crowd. “I have the most
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Dec 04 2014
News
Obama Speaks on Racially-Charged Police Killing: ‘This Is an American Problem’
President Barack Obama said the decision by a New York grand jury not to indict the police officer who ultimately killed Eric Garner “speaks to a larger issue” in America.
Some responded with outrage after a grand jury opted against the indictment on Wednesday. The police officer put a chokehold on Garner during the arrest and it ended up killing him.
“It is incumbent upon all of
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Jan 07 2021
Perspectives Blog
Surveys Suggest Most Democrat Voters are Moderate, Care About American Ideals
Some may conflate the Democratic Party with a party of the far left, represented by politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Yet surveys show a much more moderate Democratic Party that cares deeply about foundational American principles and are proud to be American. The majority of Democrats view themselves in moderate ways and vote in relatively moderate ways, too.
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Oct 15 2019
Opinion
Trump’s blunder in Syria is irreparable
UNTIL NOW, it was possible to hope that the damage caused by President Trump’s terrible incompetence, ignorance and impulsivity in foreign policy was largely theoretical, and possibly reparable. That is no longer true. The cost of his latest Syria blunder is unfolding before our eyes: Innocent lives lost. U.S. servicemen and -women betrayed. Butchering dictators emboldened. Dangerous
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