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Aug 14 2019
Opinion
Jeffrey Epstein’s Death and Our Age of Conspiracy Theories
One tragedy of the billionaire sex offender’s death is that it will make it harder to argue against the paranoia that is increasingly consuming our politics. Anyone who’s watched a courtroom TV drama has heard the phrase “Hard cases make bad law.” It’s a legal maxim that says really extreme — i.e., rare or weird — cases are not only hard to generalize from, they’re also a bad foundation for
Jonah GoldbergMar 11 2019
News
Trump proposes $4.7 trillion budget with domestic cuts, $8.6 billion in new funding for border wall
President Trump is releasing a $4.7 trillion budget plan Monday that stands as a sharp challenge to Congress and the Democrats trying to unseat him, the first act in a multi-front struggle that could consume Washington for the next 18 months.
The budget proposal dramatically raises the possibility of another government shutdown in October, and Trump used to the budget to notify Congress
Washington PostDec 04 2019
News
Conservative: She was not a faceless liberal
I am a political activist by nature. In my home country of Brazil, I helped organize peaceful protests against government corruption and abuses of power. At the time -- way back in 2013 -- Brazil was plagued by scandal, with much of the population living in poverty. And yet the country's politicians, the source of so much of the scandal, continued to push agendas that benefited themselves and
CNN (Opinion)Jan 07 2015
News
Anti-Gun Activists Trying To Emulate Success Of Marriage Equality Movement
Frustrated by gridlock in Congress and unable to win over public opinion regarding the curtailment of one of America’s oldest civil rights, anti-gun activists have decided to take their fight to your local neighborhood. For a movement that’s virtually stalled since Columbine, anti-gun activists are trying to model after the success of the gay marriage movement, which has won repeatedly at the
TownhallMar 08 2019
News
Payroll Gains Plunge to 20,000 as Wages Top Estimates
U.S. hiring was the weakest in more than a year while wage gains were the fastest of the expansion and the unemployment rate fell, a possible sign that America’s jobs engine is starting to slow down.
Treasuries rallied while the dollar and stock futures fell.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 20,000 after an upwardly revised 311,000 gain the prior month, a Labor Department report
Newsmax (News)May 31 2019
News
The Flaw in Trying to Paint Biden as Another Hillary Clinton
The 2020 Democratic front-runner doesn’t carry the same baggage.
Is Joe Biden Hillary Clinton — or George W. Bush?
The first, most obvious and literal answer is, he’s neither. He’s Joe Biden, one of the most known and familiar personalities in American politics.
Matt Continetti, editor of the Washington Free Beacon, recently asked: “Is Biden the new Hillary?”
“Trump
National Review (News)Think Tank / Policy Group
CivilPolitics.org
CivilPolitics.org was originally founded in 2009 "to address the rising ideological polarization and paralysis that was damaging America’s politicals and civic life." Mission statement: "To provide evidence-based support to groups working to promote inter-group civility and mutual understanding. We draw from the behavioral sciences–particularly social psychology–to create effective interventions and measurement tools, which will enable each group to tailor programs that best fit their own needs.
Mar 07 2019
News
‘Not my fault’: Trump struggles to defend his record amid setbacks on immigration, trade, North Korea
President Trump proclaimed in a freewheeling speech to a conference of conservatives last weekend that “America is winning again.” But his administration has been on a pronounced losing streak over the past week.
Trump is losing ground on top priorities to curb illegal immigration, cut the trade deficit and blunt North Korea’s nuclear threat — setbacks that complicate his planned
Washington PostMay 30 2019
News
The most diverse field of Democratic presidential candidates ever is hiring diverse staff, too
According to a Wall Street Journal analysis, the majority of senior staffers for top candidates are women.
The field of Democratic presidential hopefuls is the most diverse ever — it features a record number of women and several people of color — and it turns out candidates are hiring a diverse slate of campaign staff as well.
According to a Wall Street Journal analysis, the
VoxAug 23 2016
News
Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with her at State
More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations
Associated Press