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Dec 16 2014
News
Jeb Bush to ‘Actively Explore’ Run for President
Jeb Bush will “actively explore the possibility of running for president” in 2016, according to an announcement the former Florida governor posted to his Facebook page Tuesday morning.
Mr. Bush, whose father and brother served as president, is the first Republican to formally explore a 2016 candidacy. More than a dozen others are publicly weighing whether to seek the White House.
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Dec 14 2014
News
The Candidate Hundreds of Former Obama Staffers Are Backing for President in an Open Letter — and It’s Not Hillary
More than 300 former campaign employees of President Barack Obama expressed their support in an open letter for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for president in 2016.
“We believed in an unlikely candidate who no one thought had a chance,” said the letter, first reported by the New York Times. “Rising income inequality is the challenge of our times, and we want someone who will stand up
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Nov 09 2016
News
Clinton publicly concedes, says she hopes Trump will be 'successful president'
Hillary Clinton, hopeful Tuesday that she was poised to shatter the nation's "highest and hardest glass ceiling," instead Wednesday publicly conceded the presidential race to Donald Trump, saying the nation owed "him an open mind and the chance to lead."
“I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans," Clinton told supporters, including her staff, as she tried to
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Dec 06 2019
News
Food Stamps
On Thursday, the Department of Agriculture issued a final rule restricting the ability of states to apply for waivers of the work requirements for SNAP (food stamps). Current law prevents able-bodied adults without dependents from receiving food stamps for more than a few months, but states can apply for waivers in places with relatively high unemployment. The Department estimates that 688,000
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May 28 2021
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias and The Lab Leak Theory: A Comprehensive Look
This week, the media sphere has been abuzz with news stories highlighting how the theory that COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese laboratory is now plausible — and as a result, many have pointed out apparent media bias.
Many journalists who had previously run headlines painting such an inquiry as a “conspiracy theory” or “debunked” now appeared to be changing their tune, treating the lab
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Oct 17 2019
News
US Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore Has Died
Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital due to complications from longstanding health challenges, his congressional office said. He was 68.
A sharecropper's son, Cummings became the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, and was a formidable orator who passionately advocated for the poor in his black-
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Apr 28 2015
News
Obama On Baltimore: 'This Is Not New'
President Barack Obama on Tuesday addressed the eruption of protests and riots in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, condemning the violent demonstrations while acknowledging that the underlying problems plaguing the city are "not new" and will require national "soul-searching" to solve.
During a press conference with Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, Obama was asked by
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Jan 21 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Joe Biden Sworn in as 46th President
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On Wednesday, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States in Washington, D.C. by Chief Justice John Roberts. The ceremony was scaled back amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and more than 20,000 National Guard troops were stationed in the city in anticipation of possible political unrest. Shortly
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Dec 23 2014
Background
Americans Love The Holidays, But Spend Them Doing Things They Hate
We’ve made it to Christmas week, and it’s a magical time of year. But it’s weeks earlier — around the time the festive drinks arrive at my local Starbucks — that I start brimming with excitement and anticipation about spending time with family and friends. And then I find myself in line behind 25 people at the mall, when even streaming David Sedaris’s “Santaland Diaries” on my iPhone doesn’t
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Oct 01 2019
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Hate Hoaxes and Media Ethics
The recent story of a 12-year-old Virginia girl who falsely claimed classmates cut off her hair may reveal media bias on the part of the New York Times and other outlets.
A Sept. 27 Times story detailed allegations from Amari Allen, a black student at a Christian school in Virginia, who said that three white classmates pinned her down, insulted her, and cut off her dreadlocks on the
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